vicomte

[ vee-kawnt ]

noun,plural vi·comtes [vee-kawnt]. /viˈkɔ̃t/.
  1. a French viscount.

Origin of vicomte

1
<French: viscount

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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.

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  • It was probably the widow of the marquis of this name, and the mother of the Comte and vicomte de Beauseant.

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  • The vicomte received me so graciously that he and not I might have been the applicant for a situation.

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  • I was engaged with these books when the vicomte entered, after knocking at the door.

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  • The vicomte laughed in his kindly way at what he was pleased to term my high-handedness.

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  • Such was the beginning of my career in the service of the vicomte de Clericy.

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British Dictionary definitions for vicomte

vicomte

feminine vicomtesse (French vikɔ̃tɛs)

/ (French vikɔ̃t) /


noun
  1. a French noble holding a rank corresponding to that of a British viscount or viscountess

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