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
At these courts, Sismondi tells us, tensons or jeux partis were sung, which were dialogues between the speakers in which each interlocutor recited successively a stanza with the same rhymes.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
Miss Manning’s hand also was fairly obvious, for both men were extremely eligible partis.
From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Blackwood, Algernon
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 Wingfield, Lewis
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