distingue
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See also: distingué
English
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[edit]distingue (comparative more distingue, superlative most distingue)
- Fashionably distinguished or elegant; having an air of superiority.
- 1873, Charles Reade, chapter IX, in A Simpleton: A Story of the Day […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 57:
- By the time the blue dress was tried on, Madame Cie had, with the aid of a few pins, plaits, and a bow of blue ribbon, transformed the half-lace shawl into one of the smartest and distingué things imaginable; but when the bill came in at Christmas, for that five minutes' labor and distingué touch, she charged one pound eight.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “In which Jim and I Take Different Ways”, in The Wrecker, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 179:
- And she likes you so much, and thinks you so accomplished and distingué-looking, and was just as set as I was to have you for best man.
- 2001, Emile Gaboriau, Mystery of Oricval, page 158:
- It was very noble, very distingue, to ruin one's self without knowing how!
Translations
[edit]fashionably distinguished or elegant
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Verb
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Galician
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Italian
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Middle English
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[edit]to distingue
- To distinguish.
- 1430-1450, Robert Steele (ed.) with Early English Text Society, Alexander, The Earliest Arithmetics in English (1973), page 51:
- ... some vsen forto distingue the nombre by threes
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Portuguese
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[edit]distingue
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Spanish
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[edit]distingue
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