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COMTESSE DU BARRY

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Overview

COMTESSE DU BARRY (noun)
  The noun COMTESSE DU BARRY has 1 sense:

1. courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV who was guillotined during the French Revolution (1743-1793)play

  Familiarity information: COMTESSE DU BARRY used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


COMTESSE DU BARRY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV who was guillotined during the French Revolution (1743-1793)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Comtesse Du Barry; Du Barry; Marie Jeanne Becu

Instance hypernyms:

courtier (an attendant at the court of a sovereign)


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