What is "gras"

Usage examples of "gras".

The red-haired boy must be Blaize Armontillado-Perez y Medoc, of a family so high that they barely deigned to recognize the Perez y de Gras connection.

Just a shade under two meters tall, with his golden hair ruthlessly cropped in the Academy bristle cut, he was a happy blend of the best in the Waldheim and de Gras family lines: Waldheim height and rugged strength, de Gras refinement and quick awareness.

Nancia could discover, no links whatsoever with Polyon, the de Gras or Waldheim lines, or any other High Families.

Even that de Gras boy, for all the others were so scared of him, trotted aboard like a little lamb.

Perez y de Gras sat down heavily in one of the comfortably padded cabin chairs.

From the colorful, exciting, traditional festivities of the Mardi Gras arises a baffling mystery for The Shadow to solve.

It was from streets as these that the Mardi Gras had risen, more than a century before.

Mardi Gras - the French Quarter - a masked girl - an ebony box - all formed a linking chain in a brain that was coming back from bewilderment.

Probably someone caught the spirit of Mardi Gras and decided to pass out a few hundred dollars in anonymous fashion.

Except for the duration of Mardi Gras, there was little opportunity for heavy profits in New Orleans.

Had The Shadow been present on the final night of Mardi Gras, he would have gained final proof that this was Banjo Lobot.

Even if he had, Andrew would hardly have recognized the banjo player of Mardi Gras night.

For the girl whom Andrew Blouchet was tracing was the masked ballet dancer who had placed a fortune in his hands, on the night when Mardi Gras had ended!

During Mardi Gras, I chanced to see an attractive ballet costume, worn by a girl who might have been you.

American home of Mardi Gras, where it was first celebrated and still is, but without the publicity that New Orleans receives.