seconde
Americannoun
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secondes
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of seconde
1680–90; < French, feminine of second second 1
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And Michael de la Nuez, while spinning in a pirouette à la seconde, suddenly sliced his free leg backward and forward.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
They did a double à la seconde turn, one leg whipping out to the side in the middle of each swift revolution, followed by a triple pirouette dropping into a split.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2017
And all of this is expressed in a pirouette à la seconde, a step which, to a dancer of McRae's accomplishment, can be dashed off almost without thought.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 26, 2010
The seconde gentylman, whanne he came to bedde, fortuned to fynde the same rynge, and whan he hadde stayde som tyme departed.
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by William Carew Hazlitt
Buried Creature, daughter of Agnes Mathews, syngle woman, the seconde childe.
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley
It was falsified in this case by the birth of a son to Phoebe, en secondes noces, many years later.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
En secondes noces, she married the fourth Duke of Cleveland.
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount Esher
In 1882, en secondes noces, she married Mr. Thomas Henry Hungerford, of St. Brenda's, Bandon, co.
From Mrs. Hungerford Notable Women Authors of the Day by Helen C. Black
Bishops have a little turn, I observe, for marrying somebody who is somebody—specially en secondes noces, good men.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
He was married, in 1395, to Maria, daughter of Andrea Priuli, and, en secondes noces, to Maria, or Marina, daughter of Bartolommeo Nani.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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