tenue
Americannoun
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personal bearing or deportment, especially dignified or graceful deportment.
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style of dress; outfit or set of clothing.
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He knows Ronaldo will be missing for the start of his tenue.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2022
It is clear to me that Mr. Finkel obtained access and a copy of the video during his tenue as an embedded journalist.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2013
Alexander of Russia, like Napoleon, took off his hat and uniform; Frederick William of Prussia kept on his "casquette de petite tenue;" Francis retained his surtout and round bonnet.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
We found the same bustle and preparation at the station here—the Governor of Varsovie, and Préfet de Police en tenue, and our Consul, M. Bérard.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King
These each affect philosophy, and represent it too; they of the caste hereditary in grande tenue, they of the new men with much pompous parade of words, and all the Delphic mystics of the schools.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
The mutations seem to have started in the second half of the 6th century in the case of the tenues.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Archives du Muséum; i.e., the Procès verbaux des Séances tenues par les Officiers du Jardin des Plantes, from 1790 to 1830, bound in vellum, in thirty-four volumes.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
Those called mediae by the writers on Greek grammar, viz., b, d, g, approach nearer in force to the corresponding tenues p, t, c, than they do in English.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander
It is not until much later times that the h in the mutated forms of the tenues, or the use of the dot, was extended to the mediae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
As a rule the medial mutation of the tenues and mediae is not denoted in O. Welsh.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
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