ordonnance
noun
the arrangement or disposition of parts, as of a building, picture, or literary work.
ordonnances
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pluralof ordonnance.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The revolution of 1830 took place in defence of the charter which Charles X. had violated by the ordonnances of July, so that this charter was naturally preserved under the “July Monarchy.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
"If it be so, I will get together the ordonnances to obtain a discharge from the holders, a liquidation at a cheap rate."
From Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas père
It cannot be gained by ordonnances of police, by abuse, by violence, by mumming processions, which, in our times, are out of character and ridiculous.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
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
The shop was frequented less than usual that day; the next it was worse still, in the way of business, and the clerks began to talk loud, also, about les ordonnances.
From Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper
