Lady Windermere's Fan

[ win-der-meerz ]

/ ˈwɪn dərˌmɪərz /

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noun

a comedy (1892) by Oscar Wilde.

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Words nearby Lady Windermere's Fan

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How to use Lady Windermere's Fan in a sentence

I wonder what that lady is doing now, and if she knows what she set in motion with Archer?
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We haven't had any real fan reaction yet, but our collective fingers are crossed.
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Why do you think you were “an asperg-y movie fan…a jabbering repellent acolyte?”
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Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.
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Replying to a fan, she wrote, “Anthony Goldstein, Ravenclaw, Jewish wizard.”
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She took the fan from Madame Ratignolle and began to fan both herself and her companion.
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The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse.
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Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!
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The young lady, hearing his step, turned round and stood on the stair, confronting him fiercely.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
See the ease and grace of the lady in the sacque, who sits on the bank there, under the myrtles, with the guitar on her lap!
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu