soubriquet
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Nationally famous, he took on a Superhero soubriquet.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2021
He'd made up the infamous soubriquet "in a panic" after getting through to the show.
From BBC • Oct. 5, 2019
One note said: "The greatest British leader" while another said to "The Iron Lady", a soubriquet bestowed by a Soviet army newspaper in the 1970s and which Thatcher loved.
From Reuters • Apr. 9, 2013
The most fabulously overblown was his reputation as a brilliant sorcerer, "the Prince of Darkness", that soubriquet he once claimed to loathe but then embraced as a tribute to his skill with the dark arts.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2010
The soubriquet of Hotspur was given him because "in the silence of the night, when others were quietly sleeping, he laboured unwearied, as though his spur were hot."
From In the Border Country by W. S.
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