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antoinette
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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Antoinette was a French manufacturer of light petrol engines. Antoinette also became a pioneer-era builder of aeroplanes before World War I, most notably the record-breaking monoplanes flown by Hubert Latham and René Labouchère. Based in Puteaux, the Antoinette concern was in operation between 1903 and 1912. The company operated a flying school at Chalons for which it built one of the earliest flight simulators.
Antoinette is an American rapper from Bronx, New York, who released two albums, during the late 1980s and early 1990s. She made her first appearance on the producer Hurby Azor's 1987 compilation album, Hurby's Machine, with her song "I Got An Attitude". She was mentioned in the Vibe Hip-Hop Divas publication.
Antoinette is a French given name, the feminine form of Antoine (from Latin Antonius) meaning beyond praise or highly praiseworthy.
Antoinette is a French feminine given name.
Antoinette may also refer to:
- Antoinette (manufacturer), an early French manufacturer of engines, aircraft and cars
- Antoinette (barque), a Canadian ship wrecked on the Doom Bar
- Jean-Étienne Antoinette (born 1966), French Guianan politician
- Antoine and Antoinette, a 1947 French comedy film directed by Jacques Becker
Usage examples of "antoinette".
She looked at Maigret, then at Antoinette Le Cloaguen, then once more at the old man.
Blackbeard, Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, the Headless Horseman, John the Baptist, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Mary Stuart, Medusa, Sir Thomas More, and Maximilien de Robespierre.
The same water they used to wash away the blood after Marie Antoinette got the axe.
In early 2002, David Geffen, Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, and about one hundred other Malibu Marie Antoinettes erected chain-link fences to keep hoi polloi off the public beaches adjacent to their beachfront estates.
He says to meanwhile tell you the story about the aardvark and Marie Antoinette.
Martyrdom made a saint of the trivial and foolish Marie Antoinette, and her biographers still keep her fragrant with the odor of sanctity to this day, while unconsciously proving upon almost every page they write that the only calamitous instinct which her husband lacked, she supplied--the instinct to root out and get rid of an honest, able, and loyal official, wherever she found him.
The Citizeness Juliette Marny, by denouncing me, was serving the Republic, for my communications with Marie Antoinette had reference to my own hopes of seeing her quit this country and take refuge in her own native land.
It consisted of certain communications, which I desired to hold with Marie Antoinette, now a prisoner in the Conciergerie, during my state there as lieutenant-governor.
To try and save that traitor, Marie Antoinette, the widow of Louis Capet, was just the sort of scheme that would originate in the brain of Paul Déroulède.
Four or five years later she married a man named Bohmer, the same that gave the Cardinal de Rohan the famous necklace, which he supposed was destined for the unfortunate Marie Antoinette.
In the number for Aug.18: "The place for Louis Nero and for Medicis Antoinette is not in the towers of the Temple.
Molloy, sung by Madam Antoinette Sterling) open at the last page with the final indications ad libitum, forte, pedal, animato, sustained pedal, ritirando, close.
He kissed Antoinette, and then he turned, took hold of the cellar doors, and ripped them off the hinges.
The fuse boxes for the building were in a cupboard off the kitchen, beside the large electric oven, according to Antoinette.
I looked again upon the familiar rows of trees which shaded the gravelled promenades where Nick had first seen Antoinette.