Looking back on a career spanning half a century, the “Kaiser” indulges Proust, and us, with his thoughts on indifference, Monday mornings, and being quadrilingual. photograph by. From Wordnik.com. [Proust Questionnaire: Karl Lagerfeld] Reference
At least this one looked short; usually he went on for several pages, unburdening his soul to "cher James," in a misspelled quadrilingual patois that at least made it clear he sought no secretarial help for his personal letters. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Three of the four daughters of the Vasquez family who owns it are fluently bilingual, one is quadrilingual; one studied at the Cordon Bleu in Paris and runs the kitchen, and another, when she learned a group of German scientists was booked for the 1991 eclipse, added German to her language repertoire of Spanish, English and French. From Wordnik.com. [Nayarit: San Blas, Tepic and in between] Reference
Some examples follow below, from the quadrilingual Dutch work of the period, Moderne Kerken in Europe en America, which also includes some strange Central European and French monstrosities, not shown here -- though I admit a secret fondness for the etherial openness of Perret's Notre Dame du Raincy, just not all that exposed concrete. From Wordnik.com. [Some Examples of Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Church Architecture] Reference
Here in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission, established by the Dayton peace accords, is leading the way in providing electronic information to Bosnia diaspora, young people, nongovernmental organizations, journalists, academics and researchers around the world through its quadrilingual Web site. From Wordnik.com. [Atomic Energy: Yeas And Nays] Reference
Those just west of the Mississippi should raise to quadrilingual polyglot with French!. From Wordnik.com. [Wonkette » top] Reference
I long to see him and his wife driving past, with the proper escort of Life Guards, under a vista of quadrilingual mottoes, bowing acknowledgments to us. From Wordnik.com. [Yet Again] Reference
We may bemoan the monolingualism of today's American youth, while admiring the bi -, tri -, and quadrilingual speakers who make up the multi-lingual populations of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4] Reference
A quiz: If a person who speaks three languages is trilingual, and one who speaks four languages is quadrilingual, what is someone called who speaks no foreign languages at all?. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
He was quadrilingual. From Wordnik.com. [Austin360 - XL Headlines] Reference
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