Duras

/ (French dyra) /


noun
  1. Marguerite, real name Marguerite Donnadieu . 1914–96, French novelist born in Giadinh, Indochina (now in Vietnam). Her works include The Sea Wall (1950), Practicalities (1990), Écrire (1993), and the script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1960)

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How to use Duras in a sentence

  • Charles of Duras had her taken to Muro, in the Basilicata, and had her put to death seven or eight months afterward.

    Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred Downer
  • M. de Turenne and Mademoiselle de Duras were heretics: you did right there.

    Imaginary Conversations and Poems | Walter Savage Landor
  • It would be as uncharitable to doubt the conviction of Mademoiselle de Duras as that of M. le Maréchal.

    Imaginary Conversations and Poems | Walter Savage Landor
  • On Wednesday last the Duras steamer brought in 400 boxes of fish, which had been caught in one day.

    Ireland as It Is | Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • The king was near me with his hat in his hand; the duc de Duras gave me his arm.

    Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry | Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon