seconde
noun
the second of the eight defensive positions.
secondes
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pluralof seconde.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Miramon at one stage of the book's being, I find with real surprise, was married en secondes noces to Math.
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
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
This mother married en secondes noces a former sweetheart; it had been a case of a match opposed by parents on the ground of the apparent hopelessness of the young man's prospects.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
"Voilà tes secondes noces!" she cried where she stood, and laughed by the side of the gray angry water, watching the tresses of the floating hair sink downward like a heap of sea-tossed weed.
From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida
