Savoyard
Americannoun
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a native of Savoy
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the dialect of French spoken in Savoy
adjective
noun
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a person keenly interested in the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan
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a person who takes part in these operettas
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Savoyard
From French, dating back to 1690–1700; see origin at Savoy, -ard
Example Sentences
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We’re ticking off the Stations of the Cross, which a Savoyard devout has installed on the rocky slope we’re scampering up, Olivier becoming the first man to ascend a pre-Alp while carrying a golf umbrella.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
From Geneva, it’s a two-hour drive to the picturesque town of Valmorel, full of villas done in the classic Savoyard design.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2015
He acknowledges — how could you not? — that the Savoyard operettas pointedly skewer bel canto conventions, both literary and musical.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2011
That same dandified poverty clings to the faces and tattered garb of Savoyard peasants whose desperation he drew.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2011
A tall Crusader in coat armour stood smoking a cigarette and talking to a Savoyard peasant-girl.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen
She was also a choreographer for the Washington Savoyards for 10 years and for other local amateur theater groups.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2022
You could attack the productions for the breakneck pace and for the anarchic, antic style that at times can feel relentless, and that occasionally overwhelms the puckish satirical and pun-laced lyrics that Savoyards revere.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2016
The operetta, during whose composition Sir Arthur Sullivan successively lost his father, brother, mother and fortune, still brings merriment to confirmed Savoyards.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because jobs are far more plentiful in Paris than in the provinces, hundreds of thousands of auvergnats, alsaciens, Savoyards and bretons have flocked to the capital.
From Time Magazine Archive
It contains only one Roman Catholic church, which is mainly for the use of the Savoyards and Piedmontese who come trading over the Alps.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
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