Dunsany

American  

[duhn-sey-nee] / dʌnˈseɪ ni /

noun

1. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett 18th Baron Lord Dunsany, 1878–1957, Irish dramatist, poet, and essayist.

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Dunsany British  

/ dʌnˈseɪnɪ /

noun

1. 18th Baron, title of Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett. 1878–1957, Irish dramatist and short-story writer

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Example Sentences

Yeats, Sean O’Faolain and many others, as well as a delightful reminiscence of visits to Dunsany Castle by Kathleen Tynan.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2018

Dunsany wrote some 600 stories, many hitherto uncollected and some unpublished — until “The Ghost in the Corner.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2017

These are pricey books — $75 to $100 — but some titles, such as “Lord Dunsany: A Comprehensive Bibliography,” edited by Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer, are worth saving up for.

From Washington Post

Five are new ones, among them plays by Dorothy Parker, Lord Dunsany, William Saroyan.

From Time Magazine Archive

The happy marriages of my eldest son to the beloved daughter of Lord Kilmorey, of my youngest daughter to Lord Dunsany, and of my brother Rupert to Miss Dudley Smith belong to the present century.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh