Definition of St. Denis

1. Noun. United States dancer and choreographer who collaborated with Ted Shawn (1877-1968).


Lexicographical Neighbors of St. Denis

St. Benedict
St. Bernard
St. Bernards
St. Boniface
St. Bride
St. Bridget
St. Brigid
St. Bruno
St. Catharines
St. Christopher
St. Christopher-Nevis
St. Cloud
St. Crispin
St. Dabeoc's heath
St. David
St. Denis (current term)
St. Dominic
St. Edward the Confessor
St. Edward the Martyr
St. Elias Mountains
St. Elias Range
St. Elmo's fire
St. Elmo's fires
St. Eustatius
St. Francis
St. Francis River
St. George
St. George's
St. George's Cross

Literary usage of St. Denis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Paris was a Christian centre at an early date, its first apostles being St. Denis and his companions, Sts. Rusti- cus and Eleutherius. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Paris was a Christian centre at an early date, its first apostles being St. Denis and his companions, Sts. Rusti- cus and Eleutherius. ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1902)
"This last piece of work he did when Abbot of St Denis, between 1172 and 1186, ... A second William, monk of St Denis, did the same for a Greek panegyric on ..."

4. Paris and Environs: With Routes from London to Paris; Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1891)
"From Paris to St. Denis, Enghien, and Montmorency, and back to Paris via Argenteuil. The trains between Paris and these places follow the Ligne Circulaire ..."

5. The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet by Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Joseph Dacier (1849)
"He went likewise to St. Denis, to replace the blessed bodies of the holy martyrs who repose there, that had been taken down from their ..."

6. The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet by Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Joseph Dacier (1849)
"He went likewise to St. Denis, to replace the blessed bodies of the holy martyrs who repose there, that had been taken down from their niches when the king ..."

7. Paris and Environs with Routes from London to Paris: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker, Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1898)
"St. Denis, Enghien, and Montmorency. The trains between Paris and these ... Three lines run to St. Denis, tlie 1st starting from the Opera, Rue Scribe (PI. ..."

8. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"The architect of St. Denis may have been the initiator of the novelty. In Fig. 52 a restoration of the exterior of Reims was given as Viollet-le-Duc ..."

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