homme
Americannoun
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hommes
plural
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a man.
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a human being.
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“One test of un homme sérieux,” Christopher Hitchens wrote, “is that it is possible to learn from him even when one radically disagrees with him.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2017
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
His Dior homme collections with thin, androgynous models created the hottest look in town, the shows pulling in a mighty audience, headed by a transfixed Karl Lagerfeld.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2012
Amalric's ramshackle appearance and flirtatiousness can conceal the fact that when it comes to his work – directing, especially – this is one homme sérieux.
From The Guardian ● May 17, 2010
"J'aime la fureur andalouse de cet homme," wrote a contemporary critic; "il aime tout."
From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by M. (Malcolm) Sterling Mackinlay
In passing, the Northampton man asked what lineouts were like when hommes were hommes and Moore used the immortal phrase "15 Eric Cantonas" to describe the opposition.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2013
Our musical artistes have always been les hommes d’affaires—but where yesteryear’s stars were discreet about their grubby marketplace machinations, Usher and company flaunt them.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2012
The title, by the way, is explained by an epigraph from Balzac, to the effect that in the desert there is nothing: "C'est Dieu sans les hommes."
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2011
Evening's best laugh: a sign over a box reading 40 hommes, 8 chevaux.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hear what Voltaire says in one of his letters to D'Alembert: 'Je persiste a penser que cent mille hommes qui ont vu ressusciter un mort, pourraient bien etre cent mille hommes qui auraient la berlue.'
From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers
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