Dunois

[ dy-nwa ]

/ düˈnwa /

noun

Jean

[zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/, Comte de,Bastard of Orleans, 1403?–68, French military leader: relieved by Joan of Arc and her troops when besieged at Orleans.

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Examples from the Web for dunois

One would rather think that they shared their girl-leader's confidence; surely Dunois and La Hire did.
Joan of Arc|Laura E. Richards
As they went from Reims after the coronation, Dunois and the archbishop were riding by her rein.
The Red True Story Book|Various
Gilles was evidently more fitted to live with them than with men like Dunois and La Hire.
L-bas|J. K. Huysmans
True, there was Dunois the Young and Brave, who could not have been more than forty-five.
A Versailles Christmas-Tide|Mary Stuart Boyd

She saw the assailants waver and fall back; the attack grew languid, and Dunois talked of sounding the retreat.
Jeanne d'Arc|Mrs.(Margaret) Oliphant

British Dictionary definitions for dunois

Dunois

/ (French dynwa) /

noun

Jean (ʒɑ̃), Comte de Dunois, known as the Bastard of Orléans. ?1403–68, French military commander, who defended Orléans against the English until the siege was raised by Joan of Arc (1429)

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