Hortense

[hawr-tens]

noun

1. a female given name.

Hortense

/ ɔrtɑ̃s /

noun

1. See (Eugénie Hortense de) Beauharnais

Example Sentences

They had belonged to Napoleon's wife the empress Marie-Louise; to his sister-in-law Queen Hortense of Holland; to Queen Marie-Amelie, wife of France's last King Louis-Philippe, who ruled from 1830 to 1848; and to the empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, who ruled from 1852 to 1870.

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Pansy is an even more specific character than Hortense.

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Leigh had previously cast Jean-Baptiste in his stage play “It’s a Great Big Shame!,” and it felt like an easy yes to make her Hortense.

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On “Secrets & Lies,” since I’d done a play with him before, I knew I’d have to choose a career for Hortense.

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She nimbly braids together the stories of Hortense Odlum of Bonwit, which moved locations but basically disappeared by 2000; Geraldine Stutz of Henri Bendel, shuttered since 2019; and Dorothy Shaver of Lord & Taylor, which after slow decline was delivered a definitive death blow by the pandemic.

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