Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A small island off the coast of northwest France in an arm of the English Channel. Crowned by an abbey founded c. 708, it is a major tourist attraction.
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Examples
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She found the town to be “the Mont-Saint-Michel of tit and tail,” and its celluloid goddesses to be distasteful.
Spotlight on Coco Chanel Collins, Amy Fine 2009
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She found the town to be “the Mont-Saint-Michel of tit and tail,” and its celluloid goddesses to be distasteful.
Spotlight on Coco Chanel Collins, Amy Fine 2009
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To introduce the world that had created Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Adams posed as an uncle touring France with his nieces.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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For ten days they wandered from Amiens to Chartres, with Mont-Saint-Michel and a half dozen other great churches in between.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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The Education of Henry Adams and his great history showed the riches of his intellect, but it was in Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres that he revealed his deepest feelings.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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The tour began with the tip of the spire at Mont-Saint-Michel.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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The joy evoked by the Virgin of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres was gone, replaced by utter despair.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Mont-Saint-Michel marked a turning point: “What the Roman could not express flowered into the Gothic; what the masculine mind could not idealize in the warrior, it idealized in the woman.”
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Closeted in his study, he plunged into a revision of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, emerging only to preside over the breakfast table or to entertain Quentin Roosevelt, age four, whom he found “considerably older and less school-boy-like than his father.”
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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A hundred copies of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres awaited Henry on his return from Paris at the end of 1904.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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