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• He talked with acidulous tolerance of the exalted personages who had sent Ashenden to X.1931, William Somerset Maugham, His Excellency. From the entry acidulous
• Nevertheless, but also neverthemore for all that matter, the family had hopes, which resided now within the personage of the concurrent daughter, Elizabeth.2011, Jane Austin, “Indifference and Indolence”, in Rejected Works of Famous People, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry neverthemore
• "That's no matter," said Mellida, "but I am sure a neater personage is there not in mine eye in all the world.1998, Richard Brathwaite, Henry D. Janzen, The Two Lancashire Lovers, page 207. From the entry Mellida
• He imitated Guicciardini's objectivity, was influenced by De Thou's fulness of narration, and “machiavellized” all his personages, as Fenelon said long ago.1958, James Westfall Thompson, A History of Historical Writing, page 568. From the entry machiavellize
• Not only were its central personages the patterns of propriety, but no breath of scandal, no shadow of indecorum, might approach its utmost boundaries.1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria. From the entry indecorum
• If you want the Vegetation to appear you must have rain; and the rain-maker in almost all primitive tribes has been a most important personage.1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 71. From the entry rainmaker
• The second strand features such personages as the Hsi Wang Mu, Queen Mother of the West, and places such as the Isles of P'eng-lai in the east.2012, Teresa Moorey, Understand Chinese mythology, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry P'eng-lai
• In view of the dubious role of a maîtresse en titre, no less a personage than a cousin of the monarch was considered suitable as a sponsor.1991, Princess Michael of Kent, Cupid and the King, Touchstone, published 2005, page 89. From the entry maîtresse en titre
• Asking his subscribers to send him "old pennyroyal tunes" and "popular airs," he received many contributions from unknown personages, such as "a Shermantown friend," a "Mr.1987, Paul Gaarder Kaatrud, Revivalism and the Popular Spiritual Song in Mid-nineteenth Century America: 1830-1870. From the entry pennyroyal
• Of this story I will show you first one personage only, Chiang Te, known as Hsing-ko, of Tsao-yang in the prefecture of Hsiang-yang, in the province of Hu-kuang.1959, Cyril Birch, transl., Stories from a Ming Collection, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 46. From the entry Tsao-yang
• At Cêo-Rêo, not far from Buon Choah, are located the villages of those enigmatic personages, the Sadets, of Fire and Water, whose fearsome reputation is widespread throughout Indo-China.1951, Norman Lewis, A Dragon Apparent, Eland, published 2003, page 121. From the entry sadet
• It is interesting that some fairy-tale personages, such as the Baba-Iaga, are mentioned in the chronicle—evidence of the popularity of fairy tales in the Kievan period.1948, George Vernadsky, “Folklore”, in Kievan Russia (A History of Russia; 2), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →OCLC, chapter IX…. From the entry Baba-Iaga
• Having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, Rostóv stopped the horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to question him.1922, chapter XVIII, in Aylmer and Louise Maude, transl., War and Peace, translation of original by Leo Tolstoy, book 3. From the entry batman
• The suggestions for certain personages of the tale, both law-abiding and lawless, came from various sources which, perhaps, here and there, some reader might have recognised.1920, Joseph Conrad, “Author’s Note”, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (The Works of Joseph Conrad), London: William Heinemann…. From the entry recondite
• A grand duke, or a lesser titled personage, in a car goes ram-jamming over Moscow at 40 miles an hour up, with no one to say him nay.1909, Around the World with Taft. From the entry ram-jam
• The secondary personages in Richardson's "Clarissa" grow somewhat faint in our memories; but the figures of his heroine and of Lovelace remain not only uneffaceable but undimmed by time.1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning. From the entry uneffaceable
• The longest and the best ones are presented to the great lamas, high officials, and to other personages; they carry respect according to their quality, colour and length.1902, Sarat Chandra Das, “ཁ་བཏགས kha-ḇtags̠”, in A Tibetan-English Dictionary With Sanskrit Synonyms, Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Book…. From the entry Great Lama
• The third son of a baron, he trained for a distantly royal personage thirty-somethingth from the throne, a snob-value combination that had brought him Rich's custom in the first place.1992, Dick Francis, chapter 1, in Driving Force, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry somethingth

Meaning of personage

1. noun A person, especially one who is famous or important.
2. noun A character (in a film, book, play, etc).
3. noun The creation of corporate persons named after living people.

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Questions about personage in a sentence

How do you use personage in a sentence?

Personage is used as a noun. For example: “The Matchmaking Festival provided social events for these lonely-hearted pilgrims, and allowed local personages to keep undesirables away from their daughters.”

What is a short sentence with personage?

“He talked with acidulous tolerance of the exalted personages who had sent Ashenden to X.”

What does personage mean?

Personage means a person, especially one who is famous or important.