What is "objet"

Usage examples of "objet".

The objets were still precious, but less pompous, mixed in with family photographs and more whimsical indulgences than were exhibited in the rest of the house.

She moved on, looking at the objets that decorated the tabletops and bookshelves.

They were just the kind of hands which generally display rings, and which are most to be seen on persons who are both inclined to use them and fond of objets de vertu.

Joseph Peignot, tirant un papier de sa poche, enumera les objets dont il avait besoin, services de table par douzaines, assiettes par centaines, cuvettes, pots.

La repartition plus egale des biens et des droits dans ce monde est le plus grand objet que doivent se proposer ceux qui menent les affaires humaines.

They were just the kind of hands which generally display rings, and which are most to be seen on persons who are both inclined to use them and fond of objets de vertu.

It was the sort of all-purpose noise collectors and connoisseurs used when they didn't want to be disturbed in their study of an objet d'art.

The editing (a strength of the first two films) is inconsistent, as is the CGI, and cutting Saruman from the final third of the trilogy was not a terrific idea—without Christopher Lee to put a human face on evil, we are left with the Sauron's-flaming-eye dealie, which comes to acquire all the menace of one of those decorative electronic objets d'excess income that can be ordered from yuppie catalogs.

The combined rooms were now a messy space filled not with Tiffany's stained glass or moody landscapes by George Inness but with very different objets d'art: density-gradient tubes, computers, compound microscopes, comparison 'scopes, a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer, a PoliLight alternative light source, fuming frames for raising friction ridge prints.

His lean frame was flattered by a finely tailored suit of Hong Kong silk, his shoes were obviously bench made, his tie an objet d'art of vivid and wondrous resplendence.

The energy that was released was measured, compared to a time scale and a date was assigned to the clay used in creating the objet d'art.

Oil's fine was what the man said before he went around the corner, those were his last words on the matter, and here it still was, like an objet d'art somehow left behind in a closed-down gallery.

A small chromium button glittered at one end of this dubious objet d'art.

Travers is a collector, and collectors are never pleased when they learn that a rival collector has acquired at an insignificant price an objet d'art of great value.

Over the Supreme de Foie Gras au Champagne and the Neige aux Perles des Alpes I placed him in possession of the facts relating to the black amber statuette thing, and his relief at learning that Pop Bassett hadn't got a thousand-quid objet d'art for a fiver was so profound and the things he said about Pop B.