distraite
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of distraite
1840–50; < French, feminine of distrait distrait
Example Sentences
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She drew back into her corner of the carriage, and was very silent and distraite.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various
It was the only time that the Secretary had ever seen her nervous or distraite.
From Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy by David Dwight Wells
The maid withdrew with a discreet, "Yessir," and it was not many seconds later when Maud Duggan herself appeared, looking pale and distraite and exceedingly unhappy.
From The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel by Mary E. Hanshew
She has been obliged to stop practising in consequence, to-day, and has taken up a volume of Gibbon, but is too distraite to comprehend what she reads.
From Erlach Court by Ossip Schubin
But while the two younger members of the trio were in high spirits and laughed and chatted, and bantered each other for the rest of the time they were out, Alma was silent and distraite.
From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford
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