Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
party . - noun A part; a party.
- noun In music, same as
partita . - noun A game which requires more than one deal to decide it, such as piquet, in which there are six deals.
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Examples
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At the table of Fauquier, he often formed the fourth in what he dubbed the partie quarrée, to which he owed the most instructive hours of this period of his life.
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The interview is in three parts - parts 1 & 2 in English; partie 3 - en français.
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The interview is in three parts - parts 1 & 2 in English; partie 3 - en français.
Progressive Bloggers 2008
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The interview is in three parts - parts 1 & 2 in English; partie 3 - en français.
Progressive Bloggers 2008
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The interview is in three parts - parts 1 & 2 in English; partie 3 - en français.
Liblogs News Feed 2008
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And when any of them die, they haue a testimoniall with them in the Coffin, that when the soule commeth to heauen gates it may deliuer the same to Saint Peter, which declareth that the partie is a true and holy Russian.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And when any of them die, they haue a testimoniall with them in the Coffin, that when the soule commeth to heauen gates it may deliuer the same to Saint Peter, which declareth that the partie is a true and holy Russian.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The 'partie' being rebuilt once more, the whole was again reduced to ashes, "réduite en cendre par le feu de ciel en 1218, ainsi que tous les titres, les martyrologies, les calendriers, et les Archives de l'Evêché et du
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859
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Parce que Madagascar est aussi une partie de votre histoire, nous vous demandons solennellement de nous soutenir et nous aider à retrouver notre dignité de
Global Voices in English » Françafrique casts shadow in Gabon, Madagascar, and Mauritania 2009
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The chefs de partie look around nervously, as if to say, Are you really going to make us worry about where our spoons are?
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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