ordonnance
See also: ordonnancé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French ordonnance. See ordinance.
Noun
ordonnance
- (art) The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.
- August 15, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
- their dramatic ordonnance of the parts
- August 15, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ordonnance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
Pronunciation
Noun
ordonnance f (plural ordonnances)
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Further reading
- “ordonnance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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