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Definition of Langtry
1. Noun. British actress and mistress of the prince who later became Edward VII (1853-1929).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Langtry
Literary usage of Langtry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1918)
"LILLIE langtry. 1852—19—. EMILY CHARLOTTE LE BRETON, who by her first ...
Thirty years have passed (1912) since Mrs. langtry made her first visit to America ..."
2. The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical by William Winter (1913)
"LILLIE langtry. 1852—19—. EMILY CHARLOTTE LE BRETON, who by her first ...
Thirty years have passed (1912) since Mrs. langtry made her first visit to America ..."
3. Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of ...by Samuel Atkins Eliot by Samuel Atkins Eliot (1911)
"His father, Joseph langtry, had come to Massachusetts from New Brunswick, ...
During his boyhood, Albert P. langtry was brought up in the village, ..."
4. Some Players: Personal Sketches by Lillie (West) Brown [Buck, Amy Leslie (1899)
"Mrs. langtry chartered a superb yacht lying at Cowes during the Queen's respite
at Osbourne. Trunks, valets, butlers, maids, and "Joe," langtry's famous ..."
5. My Theatrical and Musical Recollections by Emily Soldene (1897)
"What do you think of the relative artistic claims of Mrs. Brown Potter and Mrs.
langtry ? " said he one day. " Well," ¡-aid I, " I think Mrs. Brown Potter ..."
6. Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography by Wilfrid Meynell (1903)
"At the end of days, notes of admiration, not notes of derision, became his
occupation in presence of Mrs. langtry. He even corresponded with Mr. Gladstone ..."
7. The Life and Letters of Charles Samuel Keene by George Somes Layard (1892)
"Mrs. langtry.—At the RA dinner.—" Mr. Punch " has to explain a joke.—Mr.
John Clayton and the 'bus conductor.— " What's the good o' the W ? ..."
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