Coeur de Lion

[ kur duh lee-uhn; French kœr duh lyawn ]

noun

1. Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”

Example Sentences

Lancelot’s Joyous Gard was not a singularity in an age which has left us Beaute, Plaisance, or Malvoisin—the bad neighbour to its enemies—an age in which even an oaf like the imaginary Richard Coeur de Lion, who suffered from boils, could call his castle “Gaillard,’’ and speak of it as “my beautiful one-year-old daughter.”

From Literature

Further south, towards the Mediterranean basin, you might have seen a seaman being punished for gambling, under a law of Richard Coeur de Lion.

From Literature

Merlyn had taught him to distrust the logic by which countrysides could be pillaged for forage, husbandmen ruined, soldiers slaughtered, so that he himself should pay a scatMres ransom, like the Coeur de Lion of the legends.

From Literature

As host of a discussion series devoted to artists he finds interesting, he will interview the poet Ariana Reines, whose books include “Mercury” and “Coeur de Lion.”

From New York Times

“Coeur De Lion” is the most crazy excellent book, I reread it and reread it: “I think you are/ a kind of rebel, the kind that I like/ The kind who is not afraid/ of what he wants/ And who lives in the confusion of it/ By reading.”

From Salon