(n.) A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.
(n.) A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath.
Example Sentences:
(1) And celebrating its 100th birthday yesterday, the Paris underground - for many foreigners as much a part of the French experience as baguettes, bidets and Bordeaux wine - could make a fair claim to being the world's most loved, most efficient and least expensive city transport system.
Bizet
Definition:
(n.) The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a telling Japanese ballet production of Bizet's Carmen a few years ago, Carmen was portrayed as a career woman who stole company secrets to get ahead and then framed her lowly security-guard lover José.
(2) Carmen's enduring appeal Bizet never lived to enjoy Carmen's success – he died just three months after the critical mauling of its premiere.
(3) I love Mahler's symphonies – anyone who doesn't is mad – and the other day I caught Bizet's Chanson d'avril again, which was really, really beautiful.
(4) My mum was the one who got me into the arts and I started going to the theatre with her when I was about eight, although the first thing I saw on a big scale was when my dad took me to see Bizet's Carmen at Sadler's Wells.
(5) THE SONG I SHOULD LISTEN TO MORE Chanson d'avril by Bizet (1866) These days, I still surf through music on the radio, everything from Indian pop to Spanish music to classical.
(6) It was in the second act, when Don José returns after a month in prison, that Bizet's music first seized me.
(7) More recently, he has returned to opera with La Tragédie de Carmen (a radically stripped-down version of Bizet's spectacle), Impressions of Pelleas and a famous Don Giovanni at Aix-en-Provence .
(8) – he asked me a question that changed my entire perspective: what if some of Bizet's "pageantry" held a key to the opera's deepest meaning?
(9) Fast-forward 18 months and Opera North offer me the chance to direct Georges Bizet's Carmen – the musical opposite of Birtwistle, the very definition of a classic, a crowd-pleaser, a war horse.
(10) Within the lovers' final confrontation, Bizet writes a series of choral passages for the people of Seville that create a psychological bullring around Carmen and Don José, goading our lovers to their bloody end.
(11) My first exposure to Carmen, aged 18, was Shchedrin's Carmen Suite – thrilling musical variations on Bizet's original.
(12) This decadent club, housed in baroque, chandelier-lit salons where composer Georges Bizet once lived, is open from midnight to 6am.
(13) Knowing Bizet was forced to write upbeat numbers and invent a secondary female character to appease his producers, I began to side with Brook: give me those scissors.
(14) Pre-match trash-talking: Claude Monet, Louis Pasteur, Marcel Marceau, Victor Hugo, Gustave Eiffel, Alain Prost, Georges Bizet, Laurent Jalabert, Christian Dior, Jean-Luc Picard, The Man In The Iron Mask, Antoine de Caunes, Joe Le Taxi … can you hear me Joe Le Taxi?
(15) It was only two years ago that I actually saw Bizet's Carmen in a new contemporary production at ENO , directed by the brilliant Sally Potter.
(16) If you're not careful, the opening act could become a costume parade: there are the townspeople, the children, the guards, the factory women – up to 350 people on stage in 20 minutes, before Carmen even enters, singing a catchy jingle from a recent TV advert – or rather the Habañera, the music Bizet grappled with right up until opening night.
(17) When the opera was performed in Vienna just a few months after Bizet's death, it was replaced with sung recitative, which became the way in which Carmen was generally performed for much of the next century.