dite
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dite
1905–10; reflecting regional pronunciation of doit, in the sense “trifle”
Example Sentences
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One was Marianne Dubreuil dite Brion, who owned the apartment I rented and also owned seven slaves.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019
Marianne Dubreuil dite Brion was daughter to Nanette, a former slave who was sold, along with her four children, to a French woman and her husband.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019
As what seems to have happened to the stolen paintings from the Rotterdam Kunsthal museum last year when thieves took these paintings: Femme devant une fenêtre ouverte, dite la Fiancée, 1888.
From Scientific American • Jul. 23, 2013
A chi lo dite? though, observe, you very often gain more in knowledge, and in perfection of art, than you lose in freshness of organ.
From A Siren by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
“Deux grandes notions philosophiques dominent la théorie fondamentale de la méthode naturelle proprement dite, savoir la formation des groupes naturels, et ensuite leur succession hiérarchique.”
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart
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