Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete forms of
nephew .
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Examples
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NYT, MSNC and CNN were bought by San Francisco neveu rich dirty money and they are losers. now and then.
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‘Le roi pense-t-il que je confierai mon fils a un homme qui a egorge son neveu de sa propre main?’
Burlesques 2006
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-- De qui l'oncle parlait-il avec son petit neveu?
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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ANTOINE (MARC), neveu de César, membre du deuxième triumvirat
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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Doussan neveu and I met again, two old gray-haired folks.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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To judge from our own tradespeople: 'il a bien fait! c'est le vrai neveu de son oncle!' such phrases rung on every tone expressed the prevailing sentiment.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898
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Pour l'avoir veu et connu à St. Domingue travailliant de son metier de charpentier, Et si le petit negre qui a Eté pris avec luy est son neveu comme il l'atteste, il est aussy libre, D'autant plus que le pere et la mere dud. negre laville sont aussy affranchis, En foy de quoy jay signé le present certificat, que jatteste veritable a la nouvelle York le 26e juin 1762.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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After that, I won't tell you that 'le neveu' is reproached with every iniquity possible to anybody's public and private life.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898
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'Mais, c'est le vrai neveu de son oncle! il est admirable! enfin la patrie sera sauvee.'
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898
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'You have wit, monsieur mon neveu,' said he, 'the best wit -- the wit of silence.
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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