Hortense

[ hawr-tens ]

noun
  1. a female given name.

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How to use Hortense in a sentence

  • It was white rose, a perfume forever associated with the perfidious Lady Hortense!

    The Honorable Percival | Alice Hegan Rice
  • And still, without encouragement or nope, I went on loving Hortense Dufresnoy.

    In the Days of My Youth | Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards

British Dictionary definitions for Hortense

Hortense

/ (French ɔrtɑ̃s) /


noun
  1. See (Eugénie Hortense de) Beauharnais

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