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In the sixteenth century the winged angels have often a degenerate similitude to tightly laced coryphées, who balance themselves upon their wheels as if they were performing a vaudeville turn.

From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs

Who has not sympathized in the joy of Madame de Sevigné, at seeing her fair daughter exhibit among the coryphées!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various

Finally, preceded by clouds of gas, the Arch-Comedian in person, supported by spectacled coryphées in brass hats!

From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian

But the coryphées that had danced there were migrating.

From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Saltus, Edgar

He dined in high places and afterwards supped at the Savoy with the coryphées; and both in the high places and among the coryphées his jewels had made him welcome.

From The Broken Road by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)