Coty

[ koh-tee; French kaw-tee ]

/ koʊˈti; French kɔˈti /

Re·né Jules Gus·tave

[ruh-ney zhyl gys-tav] /rəˈneɪ ʒül güsˈtav/,1882–1962, president of France 1954–59.

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“Compliment” and “complement” had a shared meaning a long time ago, but today they are no longer interchangeable.

Shucks, Mr. Coty, practically none of that twenty-five cents you spend to buy a cake of soap goes for soap.
Subversive|Dallas McCord Reynolds
In a field which we visit, not very far from Kit's Coty House, is another group of stones, called the "countless stones."
A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land|William R. Hughes
We would not pass Kit's Coty House without going near it to touch it, and to look at it curiously with our own eyes.
The Old Road|Hilaire Belloc
Mr. Coty took it, stared down at it, turned it over in his hands.
Subversive|Dallas McCord Reynolds

The man who had called himself Mr. Coty, dialed again, not bothering to light the screen.
Subversive|Dallas McCord Reynolds