sans gêne
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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She has toured America several times, making her most notable success in Madame Sans Gene in 1893.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gentlemen: I have taken part in many heated discussions about Madame Sans Gene and, knowing you have put many minds at ease in the past, I trust you will be able to enlighten me on this subject.
From Time Magazine Archive
She, Catharine Hubscher, never varnishing over her early manners, acquired the nickname Madame Sans Géne, rather freely translated as Mrs. Uncouth.-ED.
From Time Magazine Archive
Telfer was pleasant with the little comtesse; he'd known her from childhood, and she was engaged to the colonel of Marc's troop, so that Telfer felt quite sure she'd no designs upon him, and talked to her sans géne, though to have wholly abstained from bitterness and satire would have been an impossibility to him, with the obnoxious Tressillian seated within sight.
From Project Gutenberg
He was lifted into the prominence imparted by a Broadway run through the agency of "Madame Sans Gêne," in which Dan Frohman saw him, with the result that in November, 1895, he appeared with the old Lyceum stock company as a character next in importance to Herbert Kelcey, then leading man of the troupe.
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