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
Carr doesn’t like Ellery and once made a pass at Orczy.
From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2015
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
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
The Baroness Orczy pointed out to our representative that there was a natural harmony between different sorts of baths and different styles of composition.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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