ordonnance
Americannoun
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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 tester and ceiler also shining cloth of gold; the curtains of white sarcenet; as for his head-suit and pillows, they were of the Queen's own ordonnance.
From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by Dawson, William Francis
The Code de Commerce was scarcely more than a revised and emended edition of the ordonnances of 1673 and 1681; while the Code de Proc�dure Civile borrowed its chief elements from the ordonnance of 1667.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
The Ecce Homo of Vienna is another of the works of which both the general ordonnance and the truly Venetian splendour must have profoundly influenced Paolo Veronese.
From The Later Works of Titian by Phillips, Claude
Au reste, cette ordonnance me paroit d'autant plus facile à garder qu'ils ne sont point assez bien armés pour former une colonne capable par son poids d'une forte impulsion.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Hakluyt, Richard
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 Gosse, Edmund
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