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Malherbe

American  
[mal-erb] / malˈɛrb /

noun

  1. François de 1555–1628, French poet and critic.


Malherbe British  
/ malɛrb /

noun

  1. François de (frɑ̃swa də). 1555–1628, French poet and critic. He advocated the classical ideals of clarity and concision of meaning

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In this study, Malherbe and colleagues investigated whether chimpanzees share this feature by examining how chimps develop tool techniques as they age.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2024

Its website says that Jacob and Roseanna Malherbe founded the agency in 2015 to connect Florida panhandle residents with attorneys in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

From Reuters • Oct. 2, 2023

Familiar faces Faf de Klerk, Frans Malherbe and Cheslin Kolbe, like Du Toit, would be involved but for injury.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2021

No. 8 Duane Vermeulen, blindside flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit, hooker Malcolm Marx and prop Frans Malherbe get the night off completely against Namibia, as do first-choice halves Faf de Klerk and Handre Pollard.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2019

He desired his nephew, Mathurin R�gnier—himself a man of genius, but not in our picture to-day—he desired R�gnier to bring this M. de Malherbe to dinner.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund