tenue
noun
personal bearing or deportment, especially dignified or graceful deportment.
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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
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
