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Definition of Nancy Mitford
1. Noun. English writer of comic novels (1904-1973).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nancy Mitford
Literary usage of Nancy Mitford
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany by Colin Bingham (2006)
"Nancy Mitford, Madame de Pompadour One of the sex recipes that the Pompadour ...
This counsellor, the Duchesse de Brancas, is quoted by Nancy Mitford as ..."
2. Capital (1888)
"... social distinction first published by Professor Alan Ross in the middle 1950s
and popularised by the late Nancy Mitford in her classic Noblesse Oblige. ..."
3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"2, 1954 a more perfect rake has seldom existed —Nancy Mitford, Atlantic, May 1954
the most perfect writer of my generation —Norman Mailer, ..."
4. Adventure Guide by Heather Stimmler-Hall (2004)
"RECOMMENDED READING Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford (Random House, 1954;
New York Review of Books, 2001) Athenais: The Life of Louis ..."
5. The Paperback Art of James Atavi by Piet Schreuders, James Avati, Kenneth Fulton (2005)
"... Mercer Jan de Hartog John Donovan Elisabeth Ogilvie David Madden Nancy Mitford
Larry McMurtry Catherine Marshall Jim Kirkwood Russell Janney 1971 197'? ..."