nom de guerre
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- noun A fictitious name; a pseudonym.
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- Lady Bradshaigh, for instance, under her nom de guerre of âBelfour,â tells him that she is fatigued with the very name of the book, having met several young ladies who were for ever talking of their Tom Jones's, âfor so they call their favourites,â and that the gentlemen, on their side, had their Sophias, one having gone so far as to give that all-popular name to his âDutch mastiff puppy.â — Fielding
- But even at Mr. Swain's, amongst his few intimate friends, Mr. Carroll could never be got to admit his nom de guerre until long after Antilon had been beaten. — Richard Carvel
- He was to show them to a world, in 'Life on the Mississippi' and 'Huckleberry Finn The story of the derivation of the famous nom de guerre has often been narrated-and as often erroneously. — Mark Twain
- The thought of adopting Mark Twain as a nom de guerre was not original with Clemens; but the world owes him a debt of gratitude for making forever famous a name that, but for him, would have been forever lost. — Mark Twain
- He was in the bar of his hotel on Colbert when he spotted Daniel Rash's go-between The man's nom de guerre was Paul Koestler. — Magazine - Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine - 2007 - Issue 03 - March
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- French : nom, name + de, of + guerre, war.
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/ (nŏmˌ də gârˈ)/
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