Dreyfus

American  

[drey-fuhs, drahy-, drey-fys] / ˈdreɪ fəs, ˈdraɪ-, dreɪˈfüs /

noun

1. Alfred 1859–1935, French army officer of Jewish descent: convicted of treason 1894, 1899; acquitted 1906.

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Dreyfus British  

/ drɛfys, ˈdreɪfəs /

noun

1. Alfred (alfrɛd). 1859–1935, French army officer, a Jew whose false imprisonment for treason (1894) raised issues of anti-semitism and militarism that dominated French politics until his release (1906)

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Example Sentences

Then—bang—Mr. Irmis was asking for my pencil, which he might as well have broken over his knee the way the French sergeant broke the sword of Alfred Dreyfus.

From The Wall Street Journal

By the time he attended Beverly Hills High School, where classmates included Richard Dreyfuss and Albert Brooks, he was already nursing Hollywood dreams of his own.

From The Wall Street Journal

Indeed at one point Sarkozy compares himself with France's most famous victim of justice, Alfred Dreyfus – the Jewish officer who was sent to Devil's Island on a trumped-up espionage charge.

From BBC

"The French nation posthumously promotes Alfred Dreyfus to the rank of brigadier general," the law reads.

From Barron's

He has pushed back hard, comparing himself - when the warrant was issued - to Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish officer wrongly convicted of treason in an antisemitic scandal that rocked France in the 1890s.

From BBC