tutoyer

• To his Anglo-Saxonised mind, bred in the strict code of the south, tutoyer was only permissible to dogs, inferiors, most intimate relations and lovers. —  Witch-Doctors
• They are so mixed in all our forms that half of what we say would appear abrupt or blunt without them Then the tutoyer is a nuance that you want. —  Correspondence ; Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2
• They had been told not to 'tutoyer' each other, because they were getting too old for such familiarity, and it was he, and not she, who remembered this prohibition. —  The French Immortals Series — Complete
• It seems so odd, when we have always been accustomed to 'tutoyer' each other One ought to give it up after one's first communion," said the eldest Mademoiselle Wermant, sententiously. —  The French Immortals Series — Complete
• "We ceased to 'tutoyer' our boy cousins after that. —  The French Immortals Series — Complete

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