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nom de voyage

nom de voyage noun: a pseudonym used while travelling.

Noun

nom de voyage (plural noms de voyage)

  1. A pseudonym used while travelling.
    • …it shows that she is sore upon some point, and we are almost tempted to fear she is angry that her title of My Lady has not proved to her as good a nom de voyage in England as it has done in France…1830, November, unknown author, The Dublin Literary Gazette and National Magazine, number 5, volume 1, article “Lady Morgan’s France”, page 517
    • His nom de voyage is Mr. Von Natas (which, it will be noticed, is his more familiar name read backwards.)1836, William Hauff, The American Monthly Magazine, volume 1, article “Horæ Germanicæ”, page 58

Forms of nom de voyage

pluralnoms de voyage

Origin of nom de voyage

French

Questions about nom de voyage

What does nom de voyage mean?
Nom de voyage means a pseudonym used while travelling.
What part of speech is nom de voyage?
Nom de voyage is a noun.
What is the plural of nom de voyage?
The plural of nom de voyage is noms de voyage.

Words near nom de voyage in the dictionary

  1. nom d'artiste
  2. nom de clavier
  3. nom de course
  4. nom de guerre
  5. nom de plume
  6. nom de voyage
  7. nom de web
  8. nom nom
  9. nom nom nom
  10. nom-
  11. nom-de-guerre

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