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In the play the declassee Blanche DuBois embodies Williams's poetic side, her brother-inlaw, the brutish Stanley Kowalski, represents the "rough trade" that Williams was drawn to.
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ROCCA: She is so intoxicatingly chic she's so regal Nancy Reagan is sending the message that taking drug is socially unacceptable that at the chicest cocktail parties taking drugs it's declassee.
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This man who in his early youth had felt honored by a marriage with the almost declassee widow of a creole planter now stretched out his hand that he might take to himself a woman not merely royal but imperial.
Famous Affinities of History — Volume 2 Lyndon Orr
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This man who in his early youth had felt honored by a marriage with the almost declassee widow of a creole planter now stretched out his hand that he might take to himself a woman not merely royal but imperial.
Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr
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Fancy her feelings when he married a flower girl who had become declassee under extraordinary circumstances which were now notorious!
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw 1903
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That she was slightly _declassee_ was clear in the first glance.
Celibates 1892
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"I didn't say she was declassee," exclaimed Carter.
Blix Frank Norris 1886
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Mademoiselle Delaunay was George Sand -- independent, gifted, on the road to fame like that great _declassee_ of old; and he was her friend and comrade, a humble soldier, a camp follower, in the great army of letters.
The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885
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Then indeed I should be everybody's equal, and it would matter to nobody that I had been a Bohemian and a _declassee_.
The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885
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I take three weeks, that's enough 'elle est declassee; ce n'est que le premier pas --'"
Villa Rubein, and other stories John Galsworthy 1900
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