Tissot

[ tee-soh ]

noun
  1. James Jo·seph Jacques [zham zhaw-zefzhahk, zheymz], /ʒam ʒɔˈzɛf ʒɑk, ʒeɪmz/, 1836–1902, French painter.

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How to use Tissot in a sentence

  • Then ignoring Mercier, but looking blandly at the young man who sat facing him at the table, "What is this of Tissot?"

    The Long Night | Stanley Weyman
  • Unwarned, he had acted it is probable as Tissot had acted, weakly and stormily: warned, he had no excuse if he failed her.

    The Long Night | Stanley Weyman
  • Thus had Tissot begun, flying out at them, fleeing from them, a thing of mingled fury and weakness.

    The Long Night | Stanley Weyman
  • A large illustrated edition—Doré's or Tissot's—will please and instruct them from their earliest days.

    Literature in the Elementary School | Porter Lander MacClintock
  • He did not live in it long, and it passed into the hands of Dr. Tissot.

    The Spell of Switzerland | Nathan Haskell Dole

British Dictionary definitions for Tissot

Tissot

/ (ˈtɪsəʊ) /


noun
  1. James Joseph Jacques. 1836–1902, French painter and etcher, best known for scenes of fashionable Victorian life painted in England

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