Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at amelot.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Amelot.
Examples
-
Two minutes later, a flood of frightened bourgeois who were fleeing through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad brandishing his pistol and singing: —
Les Miserables 2008
-
There is no direct communication with the branch which collects the waters of Paris beginning with the Quartier Popincourt, and which falls into the Seine through the Amelot sewer above the ancient Isle
Les Miserables 2008
-
The following year, after Fleury's death, when French fortunes in the war of the Austrian succession were near their lowest, Voltaire's own idea that he might be useful from his intimacy with Frederick, seems to have been shared by Amelot, the secretary of state, and at all events he aspired to do some sort of active, if radically futile, diplomatic work.
Voltaire 2007
-
And she was followed, I could see, by dark-eyed glances that said exactly what had been said to Bele Yolanz and fair Amelot, five hundred years before, when the troubadours sang in Provence.
Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967
-
Amelot, whom Madame des Ursins favoured, was appointed in his place, and many who had been disgraced were reinstated in office; everything was ordered according to her wishes.
-
At the same time Broussel, Viole, Amelot, and seven others moved that it might be demanded in form that Cardinal Mazarin should be removed; but they were not supported by anybody else, so that they were treated as enthusiasts.
-
By this explanation of Amelot I easily comprehended the reason of these singular verbal orders.
-
However strange might appear to me these verbal orders of such a new kind, I thought it best to speak to the Duc de Saint-Aignan and Amelot on the subject, so as to convince myself of their novelty.
-
The Regent made him work with the Duc de Noailles, with Rouille, with Amelot -- this last for commercial matters.
-
Ossat, Letters, in various editions by Amelot de La Houssaie
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.