nom de guerre

NOUN
  1. a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role
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  • French Vocabulary la belle-tante = aunt-in-law la voiturette = little car le panier = basket le/la nouveau-né (e) = newborn le cochonnet = piglet c'est un bébé lièvre = it's a baby hare la maman = mother le/la rescapé (e) = survivor une pierraille = place, yard with loose stones nom de guerre = literally "war name" on verra = we shall see French Word-A-Day:
  • `Pietro Moro, his nom de guerre - though his real name's there, too, if you'll look more closely. THE MARSHAL AND THE MURDERER
  • Brigadier General Edward Johnson held the crest of the Allegheny Mountains with a small contingent and had beaten off one attack with so much success that he had received the nom de guerre "Allegheny" Johnson. LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
  • And "cipher" is the nom de guerre of Le Chiffre, the numbers-man racketeer of the French Communist Party and perhaps the most odiously sadistic of Fleming's villains. Bottoms Up
  • TARP will be a massive loser. it is virtually inconceivable that it could even break even. also, the % of assets failing figure is not really an apples to apples comparison as a great many large institutions are effectively wards of the state at the moment. (citi, bofa, gmac, aig, …) nom de guerre: mmmm. and these same "unfailed" banks are the same ones holding the bag on hundreds if not thousands of abandoned/walked-away-from/payments no longer being made on homes and CRE, right? all those homes, land, and businesses that are technically in default, the banks just …. choose … not to count them as such. "we haven't foreclosed! still a good loan! Coyote Blog
  • The man who, in 1920, MacCarthy, under the nom de guerre ‘Affable Hawk’, succeeded as causerie columnist and literary editor of the New Statesman, was John Squire.
  • Pathmanathan, known by the nom de guerre KP, had been working to turn the remnants of the violent insurgent group into a peaceful liberation movement after the government routed the rebels on the battlefield in May and killed their revered leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran. CTV News RSS Feed
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