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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Geneva inSwitzerland ;Genevan . - noun A native or inhabitant of Geneva.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The group didn't much wish to mix with society in Geneva, partly due to unwanted attentions of countless tourists and partly due to the perceived staidness of the Genevese.
Byron in Paradise J.S. Tennant 2011
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I AM by birth a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.
Chapter 1 2010
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Genevese nobility; his mother, Caroline, was the daughter of Beaufort, a friend of Alphonse who was reduced to poverty and died in his daughter's arms.
Plot Summary 2010
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I AM by birth a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.
Chapter 1 2010
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It was explained to me that the Sienese, who have a reputation for being cheap as do Genevese, Catalonians, Scots, etc. etc. etc.; in fact I would say more people are described as “cheap” in this world than not, will not shop for clothing in the center, where the tourists go.
A Tasty Sandwich Near Siena - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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First, Tuck didn't speak good enough French to pass for a native Genevese.
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First, Tuck didn't speak good enough French to pass for a native Genevese.
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It was explained to me that the Sienese, who have a reputation for being cheap as do Genevese, Catalonians, Scots, etc. etc. etc.; in fact I would say more people are described as “cheap” in this world than not, will not shop for clothing in the center, where the tourists go.
A Tasty Sandwich Near Siena - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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We have a faint remembrance of an unearthly collection of clocks, purporting to be the work of Parisian and Genevese artists — chiefly bilious-faced clocks, supported on sickly white crutches, with their pendulums dangling like lame legs — to which a similar course of events occurred for several years, until they seemed to lapse away, of mere imbecility.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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Genevese, now that she was thoroughly accustomed to her English professor, now that she loved him too absolutely to fear him much, reposed in him a confidence so unlimited that topics of conversation could no more be wanting with him than subjects for communion with her own heart.
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