Retz
Americannoun
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Gilles de Laval Baron de, 1404?–40, French marshal: executed for child murder.
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Jean François Paul de Gondi Cardinal de, 1614–79, French politician and clergyman.
noun
Example Sentences
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The Irishman recovered from a triple bogey at the 12th with three birdies over the last six holes for a two-over par 74 on the Retz course, leaving him two-under at Golf de Joyevnal.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2010
On the adjoining Retz, the left-hander Chris Gane and France's Julien Guerrier did best with 65s.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2010
The little Hudson River town of "New Dortrecht," in the year 1792, was a peaceful & pleasant community until the arrival of the French emigre M. de Saint Loup, with his great wolfhound De Retz.
From Time Magazine Archive
Madame had called me the Tribune of the People, a would-be Retz, a would-be Mirabeau.
From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John
"You are quite right, Albert; you have got the old duchy of Retz."
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de
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