homme
Americannoun
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a man.
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a human being.
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Kirstein seems at one point to have despaired: “Balanchine, c’est un homme perdu.”
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2019
About critics, he declared: “One test of un homme sérieux is that it is possible to learn from him even when one radically disagrees with him.”
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2015
These I’ve seen translated thus: I come across — pour un homme — as not terribly handsome, But nevertheless – pour un homme — quite seductive.
From Slate • Oct. 16, 2013
France already have a Six Nations grand slam tucked safely away and it is a brave homme who reckons are not en route to their fourth triumph later this month.
From The Guardian • May 1, 2010
They think it so essential, that they call an honest man and a civil man by the same name, of honnête homme; and the Romans called civility humanitas, as thinking it inseparable from humanity.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Hartley, Cecil B.
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