doyenne

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Recent Examples on the Web Immediately following the museum party, close friends and collaborators of the museum made their way over to the Bowery Terrace at the Bowery Hotel for a delightful cocktail party and dinner to celebrate the artistic doyenne. Zachary Schwartz, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023 Fitzpatrick, a doyenne of Soviet historians, offers the lay reader a concise, chronological account of the Soviet Union premised on the notion that accidents, rather than inevitabilities, drive human history. Sheila Fitzpatrick, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023 Some savory, others sweet, the freshest flavors of the harvest are magically transformed into bowls of refreshing coolness in Floridian pastels that would make Lilly Pulitzer, the legendary Miami Beach doyenne of bright floral fantasy frocks and golf togs, so proud. Beth Segal, cleveland, 23 July 2021 Hilary Alexander, one of the original Fleet Street fashion journalists and former fashion director of The Daily Telegraph, who has died age 77, was a prolific reporter and writer who epitomised the fashion-loving, dizzy industry doyenne. Julia Robson, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2023 See all Example Sentences for doyenne 

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“Doyenne.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doyenne. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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