partis
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of partis
From Latin
Example Sentences
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Every partis made from the collision of intersecting discs, giving it the surreal object-like quality of a Claes Oldenburg sculpture.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2019
The White Fawn of Nara might never be his, for one so noble and so fair could command the most splendid of partis.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield
Her pretty cousin's indifferent air seemed to support the theory that she had actually rejected the prince of partis, which, in fact, was exactly what it was meant to do.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
For to dyvyde oo nombre by a-nother, it is of .2. nombres proposede, It is forto depart the moder nombre into as many partis as ben of vnytees in the lasse nombre.
From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Robert Steele
Though Lord George Bentinck was the handsomest man, and one of the most eligible partis of his day he never married; yet, no doubt, he had many an "affair of the heart."
From Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall
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