siècle
/ French (sjɛklə) /
a century, period, or era
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How to use siècle in a sentence
He carried with him the insecurities, foibles, and morose visions of fin de siècle Europe.
He was no longer the man to say, "Sied-il à un homme né dans ce siècle de s'infatuer de fables indiennes?"
Sacred Books of the East | VariousBut the fact is fresh testimony to the fin de siècle character of the work.
And even if such literature failed as largely composes our present fin-de-siècle garbage-heap, we would not regret its absence.
The Whence and the Whither of Man | John Mason TylerTo the readers of Anglais et Français du dix-septième siècle an explanation is owing.
The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century | Charles Bastide
It amuses me vastly to sit in my corner and watch one of these fin-de-siècle diplomatists work out her little problem.
Worldly Ways and Byways | Eliot Gregory
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