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  • In the play the declassee Blanche DuBois embodies Williams's poetic side, her brother-inlaw, the brutish Stanley Kowalski, represents the "rough trade" that Williams was drawn to.

    What Becomes A Legend? 2008

  • ROCCA: She is so intoxicatingly chic she's so regal Nancy Reagan is sending the message that taking drug is socially unacceptable that at the chicest cocktail parties taking drugs it's declassee.

    CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2005 2005

  • This man who in his early youth had felt honored by a marriage with the almost declassee widow of a creole planter now stretched out his hand that he might take to himself a woman not merely royal but imperial.

    Famous Affinities of History — Volume 2 Lyndon Orr

  • This man who in his early youth had felt honored by a marriage with the almost declassee widow of a creole planter now stretched out his hand that he might take to himself a woman not merely royal but imperial.

    Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

  • Fancy her feelings when he married a flower girl who had become declassee under extraordinary circumstances which were now notorious!

    Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • That she was slightly _declassee_ was clear in the first glance.

    Celibates 1892

  • "I didn't say she was declassee," exclaimed Carter.

    Blix Frank Norris 1886

  • Mademoiselle Delaunay was George Sand -- independent, gifted, on the road to fame like that great _declassee_ of old; and he was her friend and comrade, a humble soldier, a camp follower, in the great army of letters.

    The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

  • Then indeed I should be everybody's equal, and it would matter to nobody that I had been a Bohemian and a _declassee_.

    The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

  • I take three weeks, that's enough 'elle est declassee; ce n'est que le premier pas --'"

    Villa Rubein, and other stories John Galsworthy 1900

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