chronique scandaleuse
Syllables: chro·nique scan·da·leuseUS/kɹəˈnik ˌskɑndəˈlɜːz/
chronique scandaleuse noun: a journalistic account of a love affair, crime, or other scandalous event.
Noun
chronique scandaleuse (plural chroniques scandaleuses)
- A journalistic account of a love affair, crime, or other scandalous event.
- [M]y antiquarian looked at me with a knowing eye, […] and lowering his voice into a confidential whisper (although not a soul was to be seen within half a mile around), communicated to me a mass of intelligence so much bordering on the nature of a chronique scandaleuse, that I found it necessary to...1815, Lewis Engelbach, Naples and the Campagna Felice. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Friend in England, in 1802, London: R[udolph] Ackermann, 101, Strand, →OCLC, page 354
- Yet I have at last induced her to withdraw her opposition, by remarking, with a grave air, how glad the embassies are, when there is a dearth of political news, to lay hold of a tale of this kind and to transmit it to their respective courts, as a chronique scandaleuse. The duchess admitted this...1859 July, E. M. Swann, “Charlotte Fandauer's Ghost. From the German of Hauff.”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 116, number CCCCLXIII, London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, →OCLC, page 339
Examples of chronique scandaleuse in a sentence
- Lobbying and votes on the one hand, and concessions on the other might be written into a chronique scandaleuse of Canadian history.1964, G[eorge] P[arkin] de T[wenebroker] Glazebrook, A History of Transportation in Canada. Volume II, National Economy: 1867–1936 [The...
- There is a chronique scandaleuse of the convents as dark and repulsive as the chronique scandaleuse of the papacy during the pornocracy, and under the last popes of the Middle Ages.2013, Philip Schaff, The Christian Church from the 1st to the 20th Century, USA: Delmarva Publications, Inc.:
- Members of the book trade evoked another contemporary term, chronique scandaleuse, cautiously.2014, Sarah L. Leonard, Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls: The Matter of Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Germany, Philadelphia, Pa....
Forms of chronique scandaleuse
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Origin of chronique scandaleuse
Borrowed from French chronique scandaleuse.
Questions about chronique scandaleuse
- What does chronique scandaleuse mean?
- Chronique scandaleuse means a journalistic account of a love affair, crime, or other scandalous event.
- How do you use chronique scandaleuse in a sentence?
- Lobbying and votes on the one hand, and concessions on the other might be written into a chronique scandaleuse of Canadian history.
- What part of speech is chronique scandaleuse?
- Chronique scandaleuse is a noun.
- How do you pronounce chronique scandaleuse?
- Chronique scandaleuse is pronounced /kɹəˈnik ˌskɑndəˈlɜːz/ (US).
- What is the plural of chronique scandaleuse?
- The plural of chronique scandaleuse is chroniques scandaleuses.
Words near chronique scandaleuse in the dictionary
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