tenue
Americannoun
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tenues
plural
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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
Marise laughed, "You'll probably have to work like a dog, for the teacher who teaches la tenue."
From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield
I dressed for dinner in my "smoking," though under ordinary circumstances I should have considered this rather formal, but I was glad I did, for she appeared in full evening tenue.
From The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne by Sir Stephen King-Hall
“You and Inez are already en grande tenue, but the rest of us are shockingly unconventional.”
From The Spell by William Dana Orcutt
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 Alexander Stewart
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
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
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
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 A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
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