Des Prés
noun
Josquin c1445–1521, Flemish composer.
Des Prés
American
[duh pray, day pray]
/ də ˈpreɪ, deɪ ˈpreɪ /
noun
des Prés
British
/ de pre /
noun
Example Sentences
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Les Deux is across from the 6th-century Church of Saint Germain des Prés, the interior of which has been newly — and spectacularly — rehabilitated.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022
“It’s funny, because the series is not meant to be real,” she said, over lunch at Cyril Lignac’s Le Bar des Prés, one of her favorite neighborhood bistros.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2020
We meet in the ultimate Paris filmstar set-up: a Left Bank hotel bar not far from her apartment in Saint-Germain des Prés.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2011
If they approached the city from rearward of the Université, by the Orleans highroad, they paid exorbitant toll to the Abbot of St. Germain des Prés.
From Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
How rapidly the free peasants sank from their level is shown by the land records of the abbey Saint Germain des Prés, then near, now in, Paris.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
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