ordonnance
Americannoun
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ordonnances
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the arrangement or disposition of parts, as of a building, picture, or literary work.
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an ordinance, decree, or law.
noun
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the proper disposition of the elements of a building or an artistic or literary composition
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an ordinance, law, or decree, esp in French law
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Origin of ordonnance
1635–45; < French, alteration of Old French ordenance ordinance, by influence of donner to give
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The ordonnance colors, quartered cross-wise, violet and dead leaf, with a sprinkling of golden fleurs-de-lis, left the white-colored flag, with its fleur-de-lised cross, to dominate the whole.
From The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas père
They there formed those formidable companies of ordonnance, whose fame perhaps stood higher than that of any other corps of the imperial cavalry.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
If Monseigneur Laurence was the man of healthy culture and cool reason that he is pictured to have been, how great must have been his anguish on the morning when he signed that /ordonnance/!
From The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2 by Émile Zola
Clearness, precision, ordonnance, sobriety, intellectual energy are compensations for his lack of grace, imagination, sensibility, and religious unction.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
The ordonnance colors, quartered crosswise, violet and dead leaf, with a sprinkling of golden fleurs-de-lis, left the white-colored flag, with its fleur-de-lised cross, to dominate over the whole.
From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas père
In France successive ordonnances from 1330 to 1672 forbade the mixing of two wines together under the penalty of a fine and the confiscation of the wine.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
In the morning he was going to St. Germain for the day; when his aide-de-camp brought him the newspaper with the ordonnances il tomba de son haut.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Henry Reeve
"Come now, Governor, do you disapprove of the salute, or of any other of my military ordonnances?"
From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin
Go, gentlemen, go; tell the Parisians that the king revokes the ordonnances.
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Latimer
The references of most value are the incidental ones occurring in discussions on the improvements or in the criticisms of ordonnances on the currency.
From An Example of Communal Currency The facts about the Guernsey Market House by J. Theodore Harris
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