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milieu
[ mil-yoo, meel-; French mee-lyœ ]
noun
- surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature:
a snobbish milieu.
Synonyms: setting, sphere, background
milieu
/ miljø; ˈmiːljɜː /
noun
- surroundings, location, or setting
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Origin of milieu1
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Example Sentences
Except for the love of her sons, the Princess lived in a hostile milieu.
Above all, artists deserve a milieu in which musical talent is celebrated and given some acknowledgement in the media.
She deems her work “craft with modern techniques” and has been welcomed into the milieu despite an unconventional approach.
And in a literary milieu charged by ideology, this means something.
Instead he describes the milieu in which the works were created and received.
She had found herself in a milieu that demoralized her; her mind had become like "the dyer's hand, subdued to what it worked in."
One has lost his place, another his title, and a third his money, and they say this all proceeds from the 'juste milieu.'
And Vital showed them a hat of a form and design which was truly expressive of the juste-milieu.
Every milieu, every nationality seems to spawn, on occasion, a man capable of action above and beyond the call of duty.
The engaging if unpleasant character, Tarr, is placed in an unpleasant milieu, a milieu very vividly "done."
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