montaigne
IPA: moʊntɑˈinj
Root Word: Montaigne
noun
- (countable) A surname from French, equivalent to English Mountain.
- Michel de Montaigne, a French philosopher
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Examples of "montaigne" in Sentences
- Montaigne mentions one, but I can't verify it in extant resources.
- Snowed in for the winter, he read the Essays by Michel de Montaigne.
- Montaigne reviled hunting by describing it as an urban massacre scene.
- That is what Montaigne did and that is why he is the hero of this book.
- His heart is preserved in the parish church of Saint Michel de Montaigne.
- Montaigne continued to extend, revise, and oversee the publication of Essais.
- In his own time, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as an author.
- The Montaigne Montesquieu station is located on line of the tramway de Bordeaux.
- In 1812 he gained a prize from the Academy with an essay on Michel de Montaigne.
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