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Definition of Tanguy
1. Noun. United States surrealist painter (born in France) (1900-1955).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tanguy
Literary usage of Tanguy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker (1910)
"tanguy was a rallying point. He was full of the milk of human kindness, and robbed
himself to give a worthless fellow with a hard-luck story some of the ..."
2. The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such by Sabine Baring-Gould, John Fisher (1907)
"Then follows a legend of the bringing of the head of S. Matthew to Brittany, and
the founding by tanguy and S. Paul of a monastery on a headland, ..."
3. The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such by Sabine Baring-Gould, John Fisher (1907)
"Then follows a legend of the bringing of the head of S. Matthew to Brittany, and
the founding by tanguy and S. Paul of a monastery on a headland, ..."
4. The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such by Sabine Baring-Gould, John Fisher (1907)
"Then follows a legend of the bringing of the head of S. Matthew to Brittany, and
the founding by tanguy and S. Paul of a monastery on a headland, ..."
5. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1897)
"tanguy, CC (CC tanguy de la Boissiere), publisher. Third and Vine, 1794 (Am.
Dotty Adv., ... See also Egron, Peter, and Co.; also Egron and tanguy. ..."
6. French Perceptions of the Early American Republic, 1783-1793 by Peter P. Hill (1988)
"Taking this quotation from Arnould as his rubric, the French journalist tanguy
de la Boissiere in the late 1790s penned an 82-page analysis of the ..."