A soft radiance at the touch of a button; the "duchesse" and "marquise" chairs, with upholstery matching the walls; the huge leather. From Wordnik.com. [The Metropolis] Reference
Sumo crabbers henri cafards d'anet duchesse faithful. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
The duchesse, who was already married, graciously declined. From Wordnik.com. [The Mistaken Wife] Reference
The duchesse and Madame de Kerman exchanged meaning glances. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
"Yes," answered the duchesse, smiling graciously into Madame de. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
"No," answered the duchesse, for both herself and her companion. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Le duc voulut me voir, ainsi que madame la duchesse son 閜ouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
I had the great honour of meeting a Duchess la duchesse d'Orléans?. From Wordnik.com. [Versailles] Reference
Apr鑣 le d頽er on me mena voir les danses chez madame la duchesse. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
"Ah, dear duchesse, how keen you are!" laughingly acquiesced Madame de. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Jeanne Cathérine Josèphe de Lavaulx de Rothe (duchesse de Richelieu). From Wordnik.com. [Oui, comme mon mari disait à Louis XIV] Reference
Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute, said the old facetious duchesse de. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
The duchesse delivered her flattering little speech with a caressing tone. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Nothing much, just one of my pork pies with a salad and duchesse potatoes. From Wordnik.com. [Hilltop Tryst]
I absolutely love the duchesse satin Prada turbans, berets, and headbands. From Wordnik.com. [How about that Prada turban?] Reference
But madame la duchesse was full of her subject, and we were full of curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
"Where is your daughter, and how is she?" sympathetically queried the duchesse. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
The duchesse was one of those to whom truths were novelties, and unpleasant ones. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
One of her rare black numbers, a silk velvet and duchesse satin worn in the late 1940s. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Collection © 2006...] Reference
The attitude of the three struck me at once as significant: the duchesse complacent, with almost. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
The duchesse also had been prostrated; it had wearied her more than all the rest of the journey. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
"Was Bien-Bon with you when you made that little excursion to St. Germain?" queried the duchesse. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
She sped toward our table like a heat-seeking missile in duchesse satin and antique Victorian jewelry. From Wordnik.com. [cat’s meow] Reference
Or perhaps it was a subsequent duchesse de Richelieu who was clearly endowed with a fertile imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Oui, comme mon mari disait à Louis XIV] Reference
Her Majesty was full of Eastern promise in 1957, when she wore this duchesse satin and gold lamé dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Collection © 2006...] Reference
I said, with affected surprise: "your manner has led me to suppose you marquise at least, if not duchesse.". From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
She herself was the first to lead in the laughter that followed her outburst; and then the duchesse broke in. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
"She reformed him, dear duchesse; at least she always proclaims his reform as the justification of her love.". From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
The duchesse was too exquisitely bred to allow her impatience to take the form of even the appearance of haste. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Leopold's smoked rabbit entree comes with mustard spaetzle, caramelized fennel, onions and duchesse prune glaze. From Wordnik.com. [Audarshia Townsend: Hop Along to These Haute Cuisine Spots] Reference
"Monsieur de Chaulnes," the duchesse went on, with ironical contempt in her voice, "still goes on punishing Rennes!". From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
The Consul was seated, while on one side of him stood the chevalier, and on the other the duchesse and the Comtesse de. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
But I cared little how Consul or duchesse or chevalier took my speech: I cared only for what mademoiselle might think. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
It is to prevent just such an alliance, I believe, that the wily old duchesse is planning this marriage with the chevalier. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
About the same time he gaue vnto his nephue Otho, the sonne of his sister Maud, sometime duchesse of Saxonie, the countie of Yorke. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First] Reference
“My dear,” said the duchesse, thinking she was going to dress, and pulling a bell-rope, “they shall show you your apartment.”. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
The duchesse chose a Henry II. carved aim chair, one, she laughingly remarked, quite large enough to have held both the King and Diana. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Now, what is the use or comfort of a duchesse to a Hottentot family?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from the Cape] Reference
It soon proved that this alone was necessary for its success, for madame la duchesse. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference
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