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
Cavendish was delivered to within 200m of the finish line in Margherita di Savoia by Gert Steegmans and the Manx Missile lived up to his soubriquet by locking on for his 12th Giro stage win.
From The Guardian • May 10, 2013
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
He drew his hand significantly across his throat, raising his heavy eyebrows in a peculiar monkey grimace which had won for him his soubriquet.
From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Ball, Eustace Hale
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