Nadar

[ nah-dahr; French na-dar ]

noun
  1. Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, 1820–1910, French journalist and pioneer of aerial photography.

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How to use Nadar in a sentence

  • After these studies he created a Balzac much like the one in Nadar's daguerreotype.

    Auguste Rodin | Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Nadar was stretched on the ground with a dislocated thigh; his wife had fallen into the river.

    Up in the Clouds | R.M. Ballantyne
  • That Nadar had cut out for himself an arduous task will be readily believed.

    Up in the Clouds | R.M. Ballantyne
  • M. Nadar had been editor of L'Aeronaut, a French journal devoted to the advancement of aerostation generally.

  • The specification of this really remarkable structure may be taken from M. Nadar's own description.

British Dictionary definitions for Nadar

Nadar

/ (French nadar) /


noun
  1. real name Gaspard Félix Tournachon . 1820–1910, French photographer, writer, and caricaturist: noted for his portrait photographs of artists and writers and for taking the first aerial photographs (1858)

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