incroyables
- plural of incroyable.
Example Sentences
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"I've studied this period — my graduation collection was inspired by the incroyables, the sans-culottes, the French Revolution. "
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2016
These young men were called the "narcissi," and later, the "incroyables" and "petits crevés."
From The Nameless Castle by Jókai, Mór
The broad, cravat-like bows, and the flaring ones known as "incroyables," were beneficently wedge-like faces and throats that have lost the seductive curves of youth.
From What Dress Makes of Us by Quigley, Dorothy
There were the incroyables, a set of young dandies who affected royalist sympathies, and paraded the streets of Paris when young Napoleon was yet a general in the service of the Directory.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham
When the incroyables came in there was a murmur of admiration.
From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
