Definition of Tanguy

1. Noun. United States surrealist painter (born in France) (1900-1955).

Exact synonyms: Yves Tanguy
Generic synonyms: Painter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tanguy

Tang dynasty
Tangail District
Tanganyika
Tanganyikan
Tanganyikans
Tange
Tangerine
Tangerines
Tangier
Tangier pea
Tangier peavine
Tangiers
Tanglish
Tango Uniform
Tangshan
Tanguy
Tania
Tanimbars
Tannenberg
Tanner
Tannese
Tanoan
Tanoan language
Tans
Tantalus
Tantilla
Tantra
Tantric

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 ..."

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