Elyot
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Rickman's every utterance as Elyot Chase had what can only be described as a musical panache.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2016
Mulligan appeared in London in “Forty Winks” by Kevin Elyot at the Royal Court Theatre in 2004 and in a production of Moliere’s “The Hypochondriac” in 2005.
From Time ● Sep. 3, 2014
Jonathan Broadbent's first contact with My Night with Reg was when he auditioned for the director Robert Hastie and playwright Kevin Elyot.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2014
What a weird, artificial thing this is: as if Amanda and Elyot had escaped from Private Lives and decided to put on their own version of Ghosts.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2013
He fully entered into the noble designs of Sir Thomas Elyot to create a vernacular style, 252 and critically discussed with him the propriety of the use of new words, “apt for the purpose.”
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
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