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Chateaubriand

NOUN
  1. French statesman and writer; considered a precursor of the romantic movement in France (1768-1848)
  2. a very thick center cut of beef tenderloin

How To Use Chateaubriand In A Sentence

  • Having come upon the earliest mosques of Cairo, Chateaubriand proclaims not the Muslim caliphs nor their architects to be the origin of Islamic architectural grandeur; rather he romanticizes a legacy stretching back four millennia. G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow)
  • Dinner was perfection too, by candlelight - chateaubriand for two, with roasted baby carrots and new potatoes, a bottle of Merlot, brought in from France by Zach's dad on his last trip.
  • This evaluation of Chateaubriand Scott: "I think he seems to have established a genre of neither fish nor fowl;
  • There is of course more than just a visual resemblance at work here: Chateaubriand has within him an ideological lodestone perpetually inclining him toward the sacred grandeur of the East. G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow)
  • At the restaurant, you're likely to share chateaubriand and a beer with a 70-year-old farmer.
  • The world took him to be a French imaginist like Chateaubriand ... who the devil, Bramwell, supposed there was any truth in this old story? The Sleuth of St. James's Square
  • Even Châteaubriand most unfilially classes him and Among My Books First Series
  • Old and blind, Juliette gave her a lock of Chateaubriand's hair when her eighty-year-old swain died.
  • A visit of his youth to the Island grave of Chateaubriand; his early memories, as a poetical aspirant, of the magnificent flatteries by which Victor Hugo made himself the god of young romantic Paris; his talks with Montalembert in the days of _L'Avenir_; his memories of Lamennais 'sombre figure, of Maurice de Guérin's feverish ethereal charm; his account of the opposition _salons_ under the Empire -- they had all been elaborated in the course of years, till every word fitted and each point led to the next with the' inevitableness 'of true art. Robert Elsmere
  • We ate Chateaubriand on our wedding night in a very posh restaurant.
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