Definitions
Etymologies
- French (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Meantime Jean-Marc collected the ravissant "rag" and we both thanked the antique dealer.”
“Il expliqua de son ravissant accent français, les dégâts qu'on fait aux beaux édifices du moyen âge.”
“L'athée n'est point à mes yeux un faux esprit; je puis vivre avec lui aussi bien et mieux qu'avec le dévot, car il raisonne davantage, mais il lui manque un sens, et mon âme ne se fond point entièrement avec la sienne: il est froid au spectacle le plus ravissant, et il cherche un syllogisme lorsque je rends une action de grâce.”
“O, it is the sweetest prince! so _obligeant_, _charmant_, _ravissant_, that -- Well, I'll make haste to kiss his hands, and then make half a score visits more, and be with you again in a twinkling.”
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“Vous pouvez vous procurer ce ravissant freebie (merci Belinda!) sur le site de”
“_Parfaitement, Madame; c'est ravissant, n'est-ce pas?”
““Mes meilleures amities a Raoul, et tous mes souhaits pour un bon sejour a Lucerne, cet endroit si ravissant!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ravissant’.
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Logolepsy
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List of Heraldry Terms
Words and phrases used in blazoning heraldic devices, along with names and other terms associated with the art and science.
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Heraldry
azure, gules, sable, vert, purpure, or, argent, ermine, vair, charge, ordinary, cross and 118 more...
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Sunbeam
Zoom'om'om; inspiration, vitality, solemness, and sunrays...
inspiral, activation, envision, myselves, recognition, imagination, repattern, exponential, flashforward, syncronicity, swish, sensation and 177 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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whichbe Ravishing; causing rapture. May 16, 2008