Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who is the eldest or senior member of a group.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a female doyen.
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- noun A
female doyen . - noun The
senior , oreldest female member of a group.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman who is the senior member of a group
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Huffington Post's co-founder Arianna Huffington, is often described as the doyenne of the liberal political commentary in the United States and is a regular fixture on the cable TV news circuit opining on political news of the day.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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Huffington Post's co-founder Arianna Huffington, is often described as the doyenne of the liberal political commentary in the United States and is a regular fixture on the cable TV news circuit opining on political news of the day.
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Huffington Post's co-founder Arianna Huffington, is often described as the doyenne of the liberal political commentary in the United States and is a regular fixture on the cable TV news circuit opining on political news of the day.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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Huffington Post's co-founder Arianna Huffington, is often described as the doyenne of the liberal political commentary in the United States and is a regular fixture on the cable TV news circuit opining on political news of the day.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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Who actually thinks Andrea Mitchell is a "doyenne" of the left?
"Fake interviews." Ann Althouse 2008
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Who actually thinks Andrea Mitchell is a "doyenne" of the left?
"Fake interviews." Ann Althouse 2008
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Helen Thomas, Dean (or "doyenne") of the press corps, for the first time in several decades, was relegated to the third row and was not allowed to ask Bush a question (she's known to ask tough questions and would not play ball in the charade) 4.
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The "doyenne" of the fawning press corps was also shown going after President Reagan on the trumped-up "Iran-Contra" case.
Accuracy In Media 2009
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Author John Tiffany sheds light on this fascinating doyenne in his new book, "Eleanor Lambert: Still Here."
Fashion's First Lady Charlotte Moss 2011
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Designer Christian Dior called Parker "the most beautiful woman in the world"; Eileen Ford, doyenne of modeling agents, once said of her: '' She was everybody's everything. ''
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: Suzy Parker, The World's First Supermodel (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
valse commented on the word doyenne
see doyen
January 4, 2007
bilby commented on the word doyenne
"I vacillate wildly between a number of archetypes including, but not limited to, Muriel Spark witticism-trading doyenne, Mariella Frostrup charismatic socialite, brooding, intense Marianne Faithful visionary, and kleptomaniac Germaine Greer amateur upholsterer and ladies’ league darts champion. Woman, 43. Everything I just said was a lie. Apart from the bit about darts. And kleptomania. Great tits though."
- London Review of Books, personal ad, 29 Dec 2007.
December 30, 2007
seanahan commented on the word doyenne
From the article John recently linked on Errata, New York Times Magazine
"That particular week in early November was a good one for country pop; landing ahead of Krauss on the charts, at No. 1, was Carrie Underwood, the “American Idol�? ingénue whose second album, “Carnival Ride,�? sold more than 500,000 copies in its first week. And Reba McEntire, the country doyenne, also reached No. 1 a few weeks before that with an album of duets."
January 14, 2008
tbtabby commented on the word doyenne
Granny Weatherwax is this for witches.
December 4, 2012