vicomte
a French viscount.
Origin of vicomte
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How to use vicomte in a sentence
In Liaisons, Pfeiffer played a woman of virtue, pursued by the circling vulture vicomte de Valmont.
It was probably the widow of the marquis of this name, and the mother of the Comte and vicomte de Beauseant.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheThe vicomte received me so graciously that he and not I might have been the applicant for a situation.
Dross | Henry Seton MerrimanI was engaged with these books when the vicomte entered, after knocking at the door.
Dross | Henry Seton MerrimanThe vicomte laughed in his kindly way at what he was pleased to term my high-handedness.
Dross | Henry Seton Merriman
Such was the beginning of my career in the service of the vicomte de Clericy.
Dross | Henry Seton Merriman
British Dictionary definitions for vicomte
feminine vicomtesse (French vikɔ̃tɛs)
/ (French vikɔ̃t) /
a French noble holding a rank corresponding to that of a British viscount or viscountess
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