pierre : Idioms & Phrases

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Carton pierre

  • a species of papier-maché, imitating stone or bronze sculpture. Knight.
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charles pierre baudelaire

  • noun a French poet noted for macabre imagery and evocative language (1821-1867)
    Baudelaire; Charles Baudelaire.
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georges pierre seurat

  • noun French painter who developed pointillism (1859-1891)
    Seurat; Georges Seurat.
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pierre abelard

  • noun French philosopher and theologian; lover of Heloise (1079-1142)
    Abelard; Peter Abelard.
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pierre athanase larousse

  • noun French lexicographer (1817-1875)
    Larousse; Pierre Athanase Larousse.
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pierre auguste renoir

  • noun French impressionist painter (1841-1919)
    Renoir.
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pierre boulez

  • noun French composer of serial music (born in 1925)
    Boulez.
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pierre charles l'enfant

  • noun United States architect (born in France) who laid out the city plan for Washington (1754-1825)
    Charles L'Enfant; L'Enfant.
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pierre corneille

  • noun French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684)
    Corneille.
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pierre curie

  • noun French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
    Curie.
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pierre de fermat

  • noun French mathematician who founded number theory; contributed (with Pascal) to the theory of probability (1601-1665)
    Fermat.
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pierre de terrail

  • noun French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524)
    Pierre de Terrail; Chevalier de Bayard; Bayard; Seigneur de Bayard.
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pierre joseph proudhon

  • noun French socialist who argued that property is theft (1809-1865)
    Proudhon.
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pierre laporte bridge

  • noun a suspension bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at Quebec
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pierre larousse

  • noun French lexicographer (1817-1875)
    Larousse; Pierre Athanase Larousse.
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pierre simon de laplace

  • noun French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827)
    Marquis de Laplace; Laplace.
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pierre teilhard de chardin

  • noun French paleontologist and philosopher (1881-1955)
    Teilhard de Chardin.
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pierre terrail

  • noun French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524)
    Pierre de Terrail; Chevalier de Bayard; Bayard; Seigneur de Bayard.
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pierre-paul broca

  • noun French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different races of people; remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca's area (1824-1880)
    Broca.
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