Delsarte

American  

[del-sahrt, del-sart] / dɛlˈsɑrt, dɛlˈsart /

noun

1. François 1811–71, French musician and teacher.

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Example Sentences

But the Jones and Delsarte prints have a seemingly painterly softness that’s shared with lovely works by Di Bagley Stovall, Stovall’s wife, and Sam Gilliam, a frequent collaborator.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2022

What a people—to take five cents worth of cheap information and garland it with twenty dollars' worth of Delsarte and rhetoric!

From In Pastures New by Ade, George

They revenged themselves in their own way, mouthing and attitudinizing, caricaturing every pose which Miss Henrietta had been taught, by the instructor of Delsarte at Miss Jessup's, was grace.

From The Madigans by Lowell, Orson

But alas for the luckless Linlay, the Delsarte of his day, poor man! he used words not to be found in Johnson's Dictionary, and outdid Cassius in the quarrel-scene to the Brutus of Richard Brinsley.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Hubbard, Elbert

And that lady over by the door, with the gold crown in her hair, the stout one in red, is Mrs. Wheatley, a professional Delsarte teacher.

From The Spinner's Book of Fiction by Various