vicomte

[vee-kawnt]

noun

plural

vicomtes 

1. a French viscount.

vicomte

/ vikɔ̃t, vikɔ̃tɛs /

noun

1. a French noble holding a rank corresponding to that of a British viscount or viscountess

Word History and Origins

Origin of vicomte¹

< French: viscount

Example Sentences

Malkovich invests the icon with confidence and sexuality, like a disco remix of his seductive Vicomte de Valmont from “Dangerous Liaisons.”

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Laclos' epistolary novel spins a web of decadent self-involvement and class warfare through the exchange of letters between the Marquise de Merteuil, a wealthy widow, and her former lover Vicomte de Valmont.

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“Dangerous Liaisons,” a decadent new drama on Starz, is about younger versions of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont.

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And the contestants are the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, arguably literature’s most poisoned and poisonous power couple.

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The new TV series sees the passionate love affair of protagonists Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont turn sour in pre-revolutionary Paris.

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