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d'Arblay

British  
/ ˈdɑːbleɪ /

noun

  1. See Burney

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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When the French Revolution broke out, Burney’s cosmopolitan sensibility brought her into contact with a circle of French exiles and she subsequently married General Alexandre d’Arblay, a hero of the uprising, in 1793.

From The Guardian Aug. 28, 2017

M. d'Arblay was a gardener of greater courage than science.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson

Madame d'Arblay, in 1791, visited her at Bath, and made record then of her introduction to the Duchess, and indicated the premonition of trouble in this wise.

From Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment by Thomson Willing

These books were "Pepys' Diary," "Boswell's Johnson," the "Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay" and the "Diary of Crabb Robinson."

From Hints to Pilgrims by Charles Stephen Brooks

M. d'Arblay protested, however, nothing could look more like des mauvaises herbes.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson

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