vicomte
Americannoun
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vicomtes
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of vicomte
< French: viscount
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For instance, in one scene in the Depardieu film, Cyrano duels and vanquishes a vicomte who insults his nose.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2022
I don't need a baron, or a duke, or a vicomte.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2011
Next, he affronted his disciples by persuading King Louis Philippe to make him a vicomte.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Good Samaritan Ruby is there with shelter when the withered mistress of a septuagenarian vicomte is left stranded by his death.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the vicomte had promised, there was no resistance.
From The King's Stratagem and Other Stories by Stanley John Weyman
It is easy," he said, also laughing, "for a young lady with generations of counts and vicomtes behind her to be a republican.
From Lorraine A romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The edict is addressed:— “A tous roys, marquis, ducs et contes, Connestables, bailifs, vicomtes Et tous autres generalment Qui sont desoubz le firmament.”
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles
And since I've seen what's left of Bellegarde I have wanted to write about his wife's people too,—the dukes and vicomtes of Puysange, or even about the great Jurgen.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell
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