regle
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of regle
1895–1900; < French règle straightedge, rule (< Latin regula )
Example Sentences
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This circumstance was satisfactory: a private fear had haunted me, that in thus acting for myself, and by my own guidance, I ran the risk of getting into some scrape; and, above all things, I wished the result of my endeavours to be respectable, proper, en règle.
From Literature
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Pourquoi ne pas supprimer aussi la règle du hors-jeu au football, trop complexe ?
From BBC
In 1962, Citizen Kane suddenly took over the first position, with Renoir's La Règle du jeu close behind.
From The Guardian
Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story from 1953 was ranked third, bettering its last placement of number five, while Jean Renoir's La Regle du jeu dropped one place from three to four.
From BBC
As a prophetic commentary on its troubled times, on a world living under the storm clouds that are about to unleash the lightning of the second world war, The Lady Vanishes stands alongside two films of the following year that offer allegorical images of countries on the point of confronting cataclysmic events: John Ford's Stagecoach and Jean Renoir's La Règle du Jeu.
From The Guardian
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