Nicknames

Usage examples of sobriquets.

Educated men were reluctant to use their family and personal names and addressed each other by their sobriquets instead.

Nicknames differ from sobriquets, which we select ourselves and for which we pick the most flattering combinations.

But the night was short and every moment precious because of their desire to make love, so he never did ask the women's names, their husbands' sobriquets, or where they lived.

He recalled the Knave's telling him about two sisters from a rich and distinguished family who were married to two brothers, and the brothers' sobriquets happened to match these.