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Governess's surname in an 1847 novel
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eyre
Alternative clues for the word eyre
- Literary homophone for 99-Across
- Governess played by Mia Wasikowska, 2011
- Victorian heroine
- "Jane ___" (2011 Mia Wasikowska movie)
- "Jane ___" (2011 Mia Wasikowska film adapted from a Charlotte Brontë novel)
- Largest salt lake in Australia
- Lake ___ (largest lake in Australia)
- Literary heroine who says "Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine"
- Title narrator in an 1847 novel
Word definitions for eyre in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context UK legal obsolete English) A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called ''justices in eyre'' (or ''in itinere'').
Usage examples of eyre.
She started to cast herself not only in the role of a doomed lover, Jane Eyre unable to marry her own Rochester, but also in the quite separate role of a naive victim, a woman who had suffered at the hands of an evil and manipulative madman.
The Hilary Eyre High first fifteen were losing almost every scrum, and it was costing them in points.
N'est-ce pas, monsieur, qu'il y a un cadeau pour Mademoiselle Eyre dans votre petit coffre?
John Eyre, who knew the Mason family and was determined to keep his niece from making a bigamous marriage.
Eyre, who knew Richard Mason, decided the wedding had to be stopped in order to save his niece from the disgrace of a bigamous marriage.
Jane Eyre was written by Charlotte Brontë in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
Imagine my delight when I discovered that Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece Jane Eyre was on show at her old home.
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I said I was sorry for his disappointment, but Jane Eyre was dead: she had died of typhus fever at Lowood.