Orczy
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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She and four other female authors—Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Baroness Orczy and Ngaio Marsh—team up and dub themselves the Queens of Crime.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Agatha is the self-confident beauty of the group, and Orczy the shy wallflower, in whom Chiori had confided.
From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2015
Rather than use their own Japanese names, the club members have borrowed those of celebrated Western mystery writers: Ellery, Agatha, Carr, Orczy, Leroux, Van and Poe.
From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2015
In the early 20th century Baroness Orczy created Sir Percy Blakeney, the British aristocrat who, as that intrepid master of disguise the Scarlet Pimpernel, whisked noble folk away from the guillotine during the French revolution.
From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2012
But the Baroness Orczy does not take advantage of this local habit, and is careful not to put too heavy a strain upon the intelligence of those who do not enjoy the gift of tongues.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917 by Various
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