Laclos

[ la-kloh ]

/ laˈkloʊ /

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noun

Pierre Am·broise Fran·çois Cho·der·los de

[pyer ahn-brwazfrahn-swashaw-der-lohduh], /pyɛr ɑ̃ˈbrwaz frɑ̃ˈswa ʃɔ dɛrˈloʊ də/, 1741–1803, French general and writer.

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Words nearby Laclos

lackey moth, lacking, Lackland Air Force Base, lackluster, lacklustre, Laclos, Laconia, Laconian, laconic, laconical, laconicum

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How to use Laclos in a sentence

On the motion of Laclos, the club of the Jacobins got up another.
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men|Francois Arago
More timid than Laclos and Danton, he did not give any opinion as to the petition.
History of the Girondists, Volume I|Alphonse de Lamartine
Laclos proposed a petition to be sent into the departments, and covered with ten millions of signatures.
History of the Girondists, Volume I|Alphonse de Lamartine
Naturally they are most of them grimy; though there is nothing of the Laclos or even of the Paul de Kock kind.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2|George Saintsbury

My very amiable reviewer thinks that eighteenth-century French society did behave à la Laclos.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2|George Saintsbury

British Dictionary definitions for Laclos

Laclos

/ (French laklo) /

noun

Pierre Choderlos de (pjɛr ʃɔdɛrlo də). 1741–1803, French soldier and writer, noted for his novel in epistolary form Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782)

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