Get to know Lettre better with 8 real example sentences, the meaning.
Lettre meaning
Obsolete form of letter.
Using Lettre
- The main meaning on this page is: Obsolete form of letter.
- In the example corpus, lettre often appears in combinations such as: lettre de, the lettre.
Context around Lettre
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lettre
- In this selection, "lettre" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 31.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, young stand out and add context to how "lettre" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include champollion s lettre at the and in his lettre à m. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lettre" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lettre
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Lettre de cachet to avoid scandal to touch high-placed accomplices). (11 words)
The Lettre was petitioned by the marquis' wife, to avoid a court case) * Comte de Sanois (domestic disputes and debt. (20 words)
Victims of Lettre de cachet * Charles Simon Favart (because a nobleman was interested in his wife) * Luke Joseph Hooke (deprived of his academic chair in theology for awarding a Ph. (30 words)
In addition, Charles Darnay suspected that his uncle, a marquis, would have used a lettre de cachet to put Darnay himself into prison if it weren't for the fact that the Marquis had fallen out of favour with the royal court. (42 words)
Other than during wartime, the Rosetta Stone has left the British Museum only once: for one month in October 1972, to be displayed alongside Champollion's Lettre at the Louvre in Paris on the 150th anniversary of its publication. (39 words)
In an anonymous review of the lettre Young attributed the discovery of the hieratic as a form of hieroglyphs to de Sacy and described Champollion's decipherments merely as an extension of Åkerblad and Young's work. (37 words)
Example sentences (8)
In addition, Charles Darnay suspected that his uncle, a marquis, would have used a lettre de cachet to put Darnay himself into prison if it weren't for the fact that the Marquis had fallen out of favour with the royal court.
In an anonymous review of the lettre Young attributed the discovery of the hieratic as a form of hieroglyphs to de Sacy and described Champollion's decipherments merely as an extension of Åkerblad and Young's work.
In his Lettre à M. Dacier (1822), he wrote: It is a complex system, writing figurative, symbolic, and phonetic all at once, in the same text, the same phrase, I would almost say in the same word.
Lettre de cachet to avoid scandal to touch high-placed accomplices).
Other than during wartime, the Rosetta Stone has left the British Museum only once: for one month in October 1972, to be displayed alongside Champollion's Lettre at the Louvre in Paris on the 150th anniversary of its publication.
The Lettre was petitioned by the marquis' wife, to avoid a court case) * Comte de Sanois (domestic disputes and debt.
The wealthy sometimes petitioned such lettres to dispose of inconvenient individuals, especially to prevent unequal marriages (nobles with commoners), or to prevent a scandal (the Lettre could prevent court cases that might otherwise dishonour a family).
Victims of Lettre de cachet * Charles Simon Favart (because a nobleman was interested in his wife) * Luke Joseph Hooke (deprived of his academic chair in theology for awarding a Ph.
Common combinations with lettre
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lettre de 3×
- the lettre 3×