Ille

American  

[eel] / il /

noun

1. a river in Ille-et-Vilaine in W France, flowing S to Rennes.

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Example Sentences

The work’s chamber scale came to the Philharmonic transformed, in an arrangement for full orchestra by Honeck and Thomas Ille, who have also collaborated on symphonic assemblages from operas such as “Jenufa” and “Rusalka.”

From New York Times

The project’s hook lay in its contributors: Each story — “Carmen,” “The Venus of Ille” and a dozen others — would be translated by a different, and notable, literary figure of the time, all friends of Phelps’s.

From Washington Post

He conducts selections from Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty,” his own “Rusalka Fantasy” — a suite arranged from Dvorak’s opera with the aid of Thomas Ille — and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto.

From New York Times

After perpe­trat­ing this fraud, mem­bers of the Orga­ni­za­tion have under­taken ille­gal actions in order to con­ceal this fraud and retal­i­ate against indi­vid­u­als who attempted to expose it.

From The Guardian

The technical term for it is illeism from "ille", the Latin for "he", and history provides many examples, from Julius Caesar - who wrote a history of his Gallic campaigns as if he were an objective observer rather than a protagonist - to Charles de Gaulle and Richard Nixon, basketball megastar Le Bron James and Mikhail Gorbachev.

From BBC