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Chevalier


Definition:

  • (n.) A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man.
  • (n.) A member of certain orders of knighthood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several villages, each linked to the piste, makes up Serre Chevalier.
  • (2) Hotel Chevalier is about a young couple, played by Portman and Schwartzman, reuniting for a (possibly final) tryst.
  • (3) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
  • (4) One evening, Kusturica went to Lisbon to play a concert; another day, he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
  • (5) Tracy Chevalier on York Art Gallery I was writer in residence at the gallery in 2008 and so knew it in its old incarnation as well as its new, following the superb renovation last year.
  • (6) Built by IBM , Watson, as the computer is known, can answer questions in a silky digital voice and knows a hell of a lot of trivia on everything from children's fiction to archaeology and the musical oeuvre of Maurice Chevalier.
  • (7) In 2003, he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres.
  • (8) Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier (2001) Chevalier’s 2001 novel introduces the work of the suffragettes as part of a wider exploration of the changing role of women at the turn of the 20th century.
  • (9) No, the remarkable thing is Hotel Chevalier, Anderson's 10-minute short that appears before the main feature.
  • (10) Awards: Best Canadian Production Award at the Quinzaine internationale de thétre de Québec '84, for Circulations; Creation Award from the Conseil de la culture de Québec '86; Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres '90; Order of Canada '94.
  • (11) Excellent atmosphere February 9, 2014 3.29pm GMT France’s Anaïs Chevalier is the last woman to complete the sprint biathlon, but she cannot disrupt the medalists.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest AFP filmed rebel snipers on the strategically and symbolically important castle at Crac des Chevalier west of Homs.
  • (13) Chevalier de Tromelin was hierarchically just under him; this Chevalier had a character as chilly and stiff as the Bailli was the opposite; both were ambitious and deserving officers, the Chevalier being as much conformist as his "adversary" was fiery and bold.
  • (14) Suffren played a double-game with his immediate subordinate; not lacking verbal smoothness, he nevertheless abused him in such a way in his reports to the authorities, that when Chevalier de Tromelin, being ill, asked to return to France, he learned that he had been dismissed of the Navy without having ever been heard or able to attempt to defend himself.
  • (15) Today that year turned from turbulent to terminal as it was revealed that the 58-year-old chief executive had lied to the high court in his attempts to explain how he had met his former partner, Jeff Chevalier, exercising in Battersea Park near his Chelsea home.
  • (16) His father had died many years ago and Browne lived with his mother who accompanied him to functions in the place of a spouse until her death and later appearance of Chevalier.
  • (17) Like the massive crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers , which was held for over a year by rebel forces who could dominate a valley full of Christian villages west of Homs, the Aleppo citadel used to be one of Syria’s major tourist attractions.
  • (18) Over the weekend I organised a quick petition signed by more than 50 high-profile women, from Helena Kennedy, Shami Chakrabarti, Stella Creasy and Bianca Jagger to Jeanette Winterson, Tracy Chevalier and Sandi Toksvig, asking the BBC male hierarchy not to just automatically give the job to a male without even contemplating alternatives.
  • (19) Now that these police states have imploded, it’s as if Europe’s outer defences, its barbican, had, like Crac des Chevaliers itself, crumbled.
  • (20) For a long time now, the actor and experimental theatre director Robert Lepage has been fascinated by the life of the Chevalier d'Eon, an 18th-century French soldier who had a flamboyant career as a diplomat and secret agent for Louis XV, and spent much of his adult life dressed as a woman.

Tarot


Definition:

  • (n.) A game of cards; -- called also taroc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For many people, belief in the paranormal derives from personal experience of face-to-face interviews with astrologers, palm readers, aura and Tarot readers, and spirit mediums.
  • (2) Once she started writing bestsellers about tarot cards and blood sacrifices, any potential for conflict went away.
  • (3) "Parliament is full of rascals and the future is grim," said Emiliano, a tarot card reader on Rome's Via del Corso.
  • (4) The son of a dentist and a chiropractor, Hall became a famous spiritualist and lecturer, and filled his book with ideas about tarot readings , alchemy and Shakespeare trutherism .
  • (5) I remember just crying on my bed.” Two years later, during a World Cup qualifier against Switzerland in 2011, Williams “scored in the 50th minute and my mum’s into all these tarot readings – all that crazy weird stuff.
  • (6) Ofcom ruled that both instances were in breach of its broadcasting code, which states that services such as astrology, horoscopes and tarot readings should be advertised as for entertainment purposes only.

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