What is "siecle"

Usage examples of "siecle".

France a passe sur ces arches venerables ou des mascarons, les uns souriants, les autres grimacants, semblent exprimer les miseres et les gloires, les terreurs et les esperances, les haines et les amours dont ils ont ete temoins durant des siecles.

Saint-Thegonec, le bavolet de Landerneau, toutes ces coiffures portees depuis tant de siecles chargent ces tetes nouvelles de toute la melancolie du passe.

Anie qui etait depuis des siecles le nom des filles ainees dans sa famille maternelle, et a Paris Anie etait une sorte de panache tout comme le beret bleu.

Au XIe siecle, il y avait la une autre eglise qui avait aussi sa girouette.

Henri IV en Apollon, et un grand lit a baldaquin du dix-septieme siecle avec pentes, courtines et plafond en velours cisele de Genes.

Les bouquinistes au XVIIIe siecle reconquirent le parapet pour la joie des curieux.

A lunchbox decoupaged in flea market postcards of fin de siecle aristocracy was the Amelia Ramos.

Aeneas Sylvius laughed at the Donation of Constantine, and wrote an account of his own Conclave in the tone of a fin de siecle journalist.

Calonne, La vie municipale au XVme siecle dans le Nord de la France, Paris, 1880, pp. 12-16.

There's also the Grand Fin de Siecle Cotillion on New Year's Eve as we swing into yet another new century.

The biospheric fragment in which the dome was set had to be guarded from contamination because it was, in spite of its relative geographical isolation, too near a neighbor that was the most dangerous and malign of all alien environments: the fin de siecle cities of the twenty-fifth century.

Budapest showed itself in jumbled buildings of pale stone, elaborately iced like birthday cakes, carved into ornamental lintels and cornices, quaintly cobbled streets, wrought-iron balconies with flowerpots, coffeehouses illuminated by elaborate chandeliers whose lemon light revealed ruddy wood-paneled walls, brilliant splashes of glass, stained, etched into fin de siecle patterns.

Nor would the Victorian furnishings or subdued fin de siecle objets d'art that had once graced these rooms appeal to Lincoln Rhyme at all.