Word: bienvenue
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...undone for Kosygin's return visit. Although protocol did not demand it, he himself went to Orly Airport to greet Kosygin, later received him at the presidential palace through the gold-tipped Grille du Coq, usually reserved for presidents and kings. "Vous étes le trés bienvenu," said De Gaulle, making use of a courtly French superlative to show Kosygin just how welcome...
Richard T. Bienvenu; B.A. (1958) Southwestern Louisiana Institute, M.A. (1959) North Carolina, candidate for Ph.D. at Harvard...
Cardinal Spellman and 500 U.S. Roman Catholics were off on the first large Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome. Just back from Rome was a happy Church Point, La. pastor, the Right Rev. Msgr. Clay A. Bienvenu, who boasted that because he bears a startling resemblance to Cardinal Spellman he was able to "crash the gates" at an important beatification ceremony...
...ship names like Georges Leygues (rhymes with bag) while their French opposites set out to grasp the British pronunciation of Agincourt. For three days the Western Union fleet in Penzance harbor exchanged signals-and Pommery champagne for Haig & Haig for Bols gin. In Penzance, huge trilingual signs said: WELCOME-BIENVENU-WELKOM...
...going too far when they send an expeditionary force across that same Charles at 0620 armed with drums and bugles. "Mahsh" Dranetz and the Boz (he's our law student from South Bend, you will recall) are all for setting up machine guns at the crossing; bleary-eyed Bienvenu is for something more subtle; such as blowing up the bridge as they pass over...