grand seigneur
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of grand seigneur
literally: great lord
Example Sentences
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"A bourgeois poet with the instincts of a grand seigneur" as Besterman puts it, Voltaire set out none too scrupulously to guarantee himself financial security.
From Time Magazine Archive
As soon as I entered the villa, Victor, with the hospitality of a gastronomic grand seigneur, led me to the kitchen and, opening the tremendous refrigerators, bared his culinary treasures.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet he had enough spare energy to become the 19th century's grand seigneur of French literature, hammering out poems, plays, novels and essays as other men might manufacture horseshoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
After all, it is paper more than celluloid that allows him to live in the style of a Down East grand seigneur.
From Time Magazine Archive
But for all that it was such a good round sum, that the interest from it just succeeded in keeping his head above water, though he could no longer live like a grand seigneur.
From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II by Heyse, Paul
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