Montaigne
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Mon·taigne 
[mon-teyn; Fr. mawn-ten-yuh] Pronunciation Key
[mon-teyn; Fr. mawn-ten-yuh] Pronunciation Key –noun
| Mi·chel Ey·quem
[mee-shel e-kem] Pronunciation Key, Seigneur de, 1533–92, French essayist. |
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| Mon·taigne
(mŏn-tān', môn-těn'yə) Pronunciation Key
French essayist whose discursive, lively personal essays are considered the highest expression of 16th-century French prose. |
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| montaigne | |
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| French writer regarded as the originator of the modern essay (1533-1592) |
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Montaigne
Mon"taigne\, n. A mountain. [Obs.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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