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Lesseps

American  
[les-uhps, le-seps] / ˈlɛs əps, lɛˈsɛps /

noun

  1. Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de 1805–94, French engineer and diplomat: promoter of the Suez Canal.


Lesseps British  
/ ˈlɛsəps, lɛsɛps /

noun

  1. See de Lesseps

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The series was set to begin filming in the spring and follow Zarin and fellow housewives Kelly Bensimon, Luann de Lesseps, Ramona Singer and Sonja Morgan in South Florida, according to Deadline.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

Beador and de Lesseps grapple most frequently with their demons during their stay at the hotel.

From Salon • May 5, 2025

De Lesseps had fallen head over heels in love with Tom D’Agostino Jr., a businessman and fixture in New York’s social scene, whom she had been dating for just four weeks.

From Salon • May 5, 2025

They’re also cut from a slightly different cloth than longtime New York housewives like Singer, Sonja Morgan or Luann de Lesseps — more influencers and aspiring girl bosses than striving socialites or eccentric divorcees.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2023

The facilities which the railway afforded determined de Lesseps's choice of route, and de Lesseps ploughed so deeply that those who came after him have found themselves constrained to follow his furrow.

From The Panama Canal and its Makers by Cornish, Vaughan

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