soubriquet
Americannoun
noun
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He'd made up the infamous soubriquet "in a panic" after getting through to the show.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2019
But it was the penultimate set that produced the peak, a set of tennis so good that it deserves its own soubriquet - the Fabulous Fourth - as the stand-out classic in a stand-out match.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2014
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
It turned their far eastern fascination into a soubriquet that stood for the application of hip-hop's cut-and-paste aesthetics to forward-thinking beatcraft.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2010
“One o’clock, mum,” said Mr James Chawner, cordwainer, and member of the society of Campanological Brothers, commonly known by the soubriquet of Beaky Jem, tenor in St Runwald’s peal.
From A Little World by George Manville Fenn
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