étoile
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In one sequence, Claude Bessy, a Paris Opera étoile, plays a model, wooed by her lover and eating a sandwich with the most royal disinterest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“I will never be an étoile, because it’s too complicated and it’s a job,” de Laâge says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
A technically accomplished and versatile dancer, he rose rapidly through the competitive ranks of the Opera, becoming an étoile in 1997.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Just a sampling: the étoile cannelle is a star-shaped treat fragrant with cinnamon; spritzbredle is made from ground almonds; and anisbredle is flavored with aniseed.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
The Spanish word is estrella, a modified derivative, but still one that bears in its structure the marks of its Latin origin; the French word étoile is a still more altered product of word evolution.
From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton
His wit flies out on clear-cut, swallow-like wings as when he said, in speaking of Paul Alexis' book "Le Besoin d'aimer," "Vous avez trouvez un titre assez laid pour faire reculer les divines étoiles."
From Confessions of a Young Man by George (George Augustus) Moore
His wit flies out on clear-cut, swallow-like wings; in speaking of Paul Alexis' book "Le Besoin d'aimer," he said: "Vous avez trouvé un titre assez laid pour faire reculer les divines étoiles."
From Confessions of a Young Man by George (George Augustus) Moore
In such a passage again as the following, the power and simplicity of the diction can escape no reader; the piling up of the strokes is worthy of Victor Hugo:— Les étoiles cherront.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
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