Vendôme

[ vahn-dohm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Louis Jo·seph de [lwee zhaw-, zef, d, uh], 1654–1712, French general and marshal.

Vendôme

/ vɑ̃dom /

VendômeLouis Joseph de16541712MFrenchMILITARY: general Louis Joseph de (lwi ʒozɛf də). 1654–1712, French marshal, noted for his command during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14)

Its two chief masses are 146 feet high, or about equal to the Vendôme column in Paris.

A floppy picturesque Paris student, lounging springlike in the Place Vendôme, is worth a fair lady's glance of curiosity.

It was in one of the lubberly houses of the Place Vendôme that the poet of the keyboard died a few days later.

He was instrumental in saving many works of art, but he ordered the destruction of the Column in the Place Vendôme.

The following night twenty volumes left their places, among them the Lucretius of Prior de Vendôme.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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