inconnu
Americannoun
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a person who is unknown; stranger.
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Also called sheefish. a game fish, Stenodus leucichthys, of fresh or brackish northern waters.
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Etymology
Origin of inconnu
1800–10; < French: literally, unknown, equivalent to in- in- 3 + connu, past participle of connaître to know, be acquainted with < Latin cognōscere; see cognition
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Nearly overnight, Jimmy went from an inconnu to welcome everywhere in town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu 1, 2011 by Richard Hamilton, featuring Poussin, Courbet and Titian and ’resonant with respect for these great forbears’.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2012
Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu 1, 2011 by Richard Hamilton.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2012
The whole proportion is denounced by several men of standing and experience, none of whom are "inconnu."
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
Edith murmured a conventional "Thanks, loads—cut in later," to the inconnu.
From Tales of the Jazz Age by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
One of the young Indians, however, was so fortunate as to find the net that had been missing, and which contained three of the poissons inconnus.
From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I by Mackenzie, Alexander
I—I have felt proud to think that we were once—that we were once—not des inconnus.
From The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts by Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir
Their renown, however, has been, eclipsed by the superior splendors of their great master, St. Dominic; —"Fils inconnus d'un si glorieux père."
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by Prescott, William Hickling
Riquet begins by barking fiercely when “des hommes inconnus, mal vêtus, injurieux et farouches” invade his beloved house, and ends in being lifted in silent misery and shut up in a portmanteau.
From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Darwin, Francis, Sir
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