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leger

1

[ lej-er ]

noun

, Angling.


Léger

2

[ ley-zhey ]

noun

  1. A·lex·is Saint-Lé·ger [a, -lek-, see, sa, n, -ley-, zhey]. St.-John Perse.
  2. Fer·nand [fe, r, -, nahn], 1881–1955, French artist.

Léger

/ leʒe /

noun

  1. LégerFernand18811955MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Fernand (fɛrnɑ̃). 1881–1955, French cubist painter, influenced by industrial technology


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In 1970, and again in 1980, restitution was back on the agenda, and my mother and my aunt reclaimed paintings by Monet and Léger.

Cézanne, Léger, Miró, and Rousseau were among the artists he collected, along with a group of Brancusi sculptures.

La Seine coulait doucement sous le Pont Neuf, à travers ce voile léger de buée qu'il avait remarqué si souvent.

Well-warned, therefore, but with the proverbial coeur léger, Oudinot advanced on Rome with 8000 men early on the 30th of April.

Fernand Léger, with the exception of Picasso, is the most genuinely talented artist of the Cubist movement.

Duchamp, a slighter talent than either Léger or Gleizes, is the Whistler of the movement.

Professor Léger has devoted more than thirty years to the study of the Slavic race.

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