sobriquet
IPA: sˈoʊbrʌkeɪ
noun
- A familiar name for a person or thing; a nickname (sometimes assumed by the person, but often given by others), that is descriptive.
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Examples of "sobriquet" in Sentences
- She knows your sobriquet.
- Charlemagne is a compound of name and sobriquet.
- That is how Jayasimha earned the sobriquet of Siddharaja.
- This act earned her the sobriquet 'Isabel the Redemptress'.
- Alfonso the Battler earned his sobriquet in the Reconquista.
- For his efforts, Sen earned the sobriquet 'Gandhi of Arambagh'.
- It is much better than the idea of using nickname over sobriquet.
- He is sometimes known by the sobriquet 'The Austrian March King'.
- I take issue with the concept that use of sobriquet is pretentious.
- It is one of the reasons for his sobriquet 'The Cradle of Infantry'.
- In a country where the sobriquet is usually the only name by which it is courteous or safe to address a man, and where it is invariably apt, few men are accorded two.
- A sobriquet is a descriptive appellation, like Governor Jesse [the Body] Ventura, which geezers will fondly recall followed, by two generations, Marie [the Body] McDonald.
- We all know that the sobriquet is obsolete, but did one expect the Senate Majority Leader ever to say, in effect, that Senators are a collection of potted plants whose participation is unimportant to dealing with an “unprecedented financial crisis”?
- It was Fuentes who coined the sobriquet "My Queen," Avila Beltrán told authorities after her arrest; the Mexican cop used his proceeds from the drug trade to send his wife on clothing and jewelry shopping sprees in Paris and the United States and to buy her seafront condominiums in Puerto Vallarta and other Pacific Coast resort towns.
- Whereas my other contact has focused on the Shan tribes near the Chinese border, the Father of the White Monkey — the sobriquet comes from the nickname he has given his daughter, who often travels with him — works mostly with the Karen and other tribes in eastern Burma abutting Thailand, though the networks he operates have ranged as far as the Indian border.
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