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
There he continues to produce work that sounds less like a grand seigneur than a great copywriter: "How would you like to watch a Wall Creeper running up and down the apricot walls?" he writes.
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.
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After all, it is paper more than celluloid that allows him to live in the style of a Down East grand seigneur.
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There was but one grand seigneur in the Faubourg St. Germain to offer his house to the Prussians.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
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