Nadar

[ nah-dahr; French na-dar ]

/ nɑˈdɑr; French naˈdær /

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noun

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, 1820–1910, French journalist and pioneer of aerial photography.

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Words nearby Nadar

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How to use Nadar in a sentence

After these studies he created a Balzac much like the one in Nadar's daguerreotype.
Auguste Rodin|Rainer Maria Rilke
Nadar was stretched on the ground with a dislocated thigh; his wife had fallen into the river.
Up in the Clouds|R.M. Ballantyne
That Nadar had cut out for himself an arduous task will be readily believed.
Up in the Clouds|R.M. Ballantyne
M. Nadar had been editor of L'Aeronaut, a French journal devoted to the advancement of aerostation generally.
The Dominion of the Air|J. M. Bacon

The specification of this really remarkable structure may be taken from M. Nadar's own description.
The Dominion of the Air|J. M. Bacon

British Dictionary definitions for Nadar

Nadar

/ (French nadar) /

noun

real name Gaspard Félix Tournachon . 1820–1910, French photographer, writer, and caricaturist: noted for his portrait photographs of artists and writers and for taking the first aerial photographs (1858)

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