Crossword clues for hortense
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Latin Hortensia, fem. of Hortensius, a Roman gens name, related to hortus "garden" (see yard (n.1)).
Wikipedia
Hortense is a French feminine given name that comes from Latin meaning gardener. It may refer to:
Persons
- Hortense Allart, an Italian-French feminist writer and essayist
- Hortense de Beauharnais, stepdaughter of Napoleon and amateur musician
- Hortense Béwouda, sprinter from Cameroon
- Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin from 1646 to 1699, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England
- Hortense Ellis, reggae singer
- Hortense Calisher, author of In the Absence of Angels
- Hortense Schneider, French soprano from the Bordeaux region
- Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist best known for her studies of African Americans in rural America and of Hollywood
- Hortense Parker, daughter of African-American inventor, industrialist and abolitionist, John Parker
- Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (Antoinette-Cécile-Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot), French painter of genre scenes
- Hortense Rhéa, French actress
Fictional characters
- Mademoiselle Hortense, character in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- Hortense Briggs, character in the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- Hortense Daigle, portrayed by Eileen Heckart in the The Bad Seed play and film
- Hortense McDuck, character from the Scrooge McDuck universe
- Hortense Toomey Campanati, character in the novel Earthly Powers, by Anthony Burgess
- Hortense, later known as Mist, character from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky
Other
- Hortense, Georgia, an unincorporated community in Brantley County, Georgia, United States
- Hurricane Hortense, a 1996 category 4 Atlantic hurricane
- Hortense-class frigate
Usage examples of "hortense".
As for the vile scandal about Hortense and Napoleon, there is little doubt that it was spread by the Bonapartist family for interested motives.
Regina said breathlessly, and both girls watched her flit off into the crowd, moving, of course, in the direction of Hortense.
Hortense, Pauline, have all the grace and fascination of the earlier age, merge with it the abandon of the Directoire period, and touch the whole with the romanticism and individualism of the coming century.
Bonaparte wished to give his stepdaughter to Duroc, and his brothers were eager to promote the marriage, because they wished to separate Josephine from Hortense, for whom Bonaparte felt the tenderest affection.
Louis, Hortense cherished an attachment for Duroc, who was at that time a handsome man about thirty, and a great favourite of Bonaparte.
However, the indifference with which Duroc regarded the marriage of Louis Bonaparte sufficiently proves that the regard with which be had inspired Hortense was not very ardently returned.
The First Consul knew it, just as he well knew that Hortense had a great inclination for Duroc, who did not fully return it.
I have rightly given Caroline to Murat, and Pauline to Leclerc, and I can well give Hortense to Duroc, who is a fine fellow.
As Mr. Bucket bends forward in some excitement--for him--and inaugurates what he is going to say with one ghostly beat of his forefinger in the air, Mademoiselle Hortense fixes her black eyes upon him with a dark frown and sets her dry lips closely and firmly together.
Hortense, as a Radcliffe woman of the most intense variety, chose to take my remark as in insult merely because that was what I intended it to be.
Finally, in 1980, my Aunt Hortense purchased The Book of Counted Sorrows, intending to present it to me as an Arbor Day gift.
She was twenty-three years old, and she had come a long hard way from the house in Mayfair where Madame Hortense had sold her maidenhood to an elderly Whig minister of state for one hundred guineas.
She didn't have anything against the pope or saintly girls named Hortense, but more than not, she liked herself, warts and all, including grotesque appendages and strange nodules on the brain—.
Salmon, in 1710, in The English Herbal, gives a number of varieties of the Garden Clary, which he calls Horminum Hortense, in distinction to Horminum Sylvestre, the Wild Clary, subdividing it into the Common Clary (H.