coryphée

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coryphée englanniksi

  1. (synonym of)

  2. The conductor or leader of the chorus of a drama.

  3. (quote-book)

  4. (quote-book) and ''Portique pour une fille de France''|editors=Christopher Dingle; Robert Fallon|title=Messiaen Perspectives|location=Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt.|publisher=Publishing|Ashgate|year=2013|isbn=978-1-4094-2695-0|location2=Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.|publisher2=Routledge|year2=2016|volume2=1 (Sources and Influences)|page2=52|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=Us0FDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA52|isbn2=978-1-317-09718-1|passage=Two ''coryphées'', or coryphæi, the term for the leader of a Greek chorus, were stationed in towers on either side of the stage. A device borrowed from Léon Chancerel's ''Mission de Jeanne d'Arc'', the ''coryphées'' are present for the entire length of the drama. Like the messenger, they commented upon the action in a Manichean dialogue: one cheering on (w), the other deriding her.

  5. The chief or leader of an interest or party.

  6. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for Osborne (publisher)|Thomas Osborne,(nb...); Millar|Andrew Millar,(nb...); and J. Osborn,(nb...)|year=1748|volume=XVIII|section=book IV (The History of the Carthaginians), section IV|pages=630–631|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=bkZfduZWpxkC&pg=PA631|oclc=833148034|passage=It was likewiſe cuſtomary to drink hard at theſe kinds of feaſts; yet it ſeems, according to the ſame author &91;(w)&93;, that the coryphee, or head-gueſt, always began firſt, and put the cup, or rather pitcher, about to his next neighbour, till it had gone round: for, it ſeems, they all drank out of the ſame veſſel, and no man could drink till it came to his turn, nor refuſe when it did.

  7. (quote-book)|chapter=Fable VIII. Louis Fourteenth’s Wig.|title=Fables for the Holy Alliance, Rhymes on the Road, &c. &c.|location=London|publisher=Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,(nb...)|year=1823|page=62|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/fablesforholyall00moor/page/n83/mode/1up|oclc=1682053|passage=... XIV of France|(smallcaps) the Fourteenth,—that glory, / That ''Coryphée'' of all crown'd pates, / That pink of the Legitimates— ...

  8. (quote-book)|year=1834|page=107|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JoiZdzQdWiYC&pg=PA107|oclc=458151363|passage=And now, whip—whip—whip—as fast as of Assisi|(smallcaps) of Assisi himself, or Dominic Loricatus|(smallcaps) ''Loricatus'', ''coryphee'' of flagellants, could himself have flagellated.

  9. (quote-book)&93;|title=Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore|location=London|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans|date=27 February 1836|year_published=1856|volume=VII|page=145|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/memoirsjournalc07moor/page/145/mode/1up|oclc=1114142877|passage=Dined with Bryan: company, Shiel, Wyse, and a Mr. Finlay. Talked of an infinity of subjects, Shiel giving some good mimicries of Dan, and having evidently no vast respect for his great Coryphée.

  10. (quote-book): A Hermeneutic Approach to the Study of History and Culture|series=Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library|seriesvolume=2|location=The Hague; Boston, Mass.|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|year=1980|page=187|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=vXahBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA187|doi=10.1007/978-94-009-8869-9|isbn=978-94-009-8871-2|passage=Even the coryphee of the ''Annales'' school, (w), affirms the historian's traditional concern about time – although, as we will see below, he himself did more than any other historian to undermine the profession's preoccupation with time, movement and development.

  11. (quote-book) April 4, 1832|translators=James Toupin; Roger Boesche|editor=Roger Boesche|title=Selected Letters on Politics and Society|location=Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif; London|publisher=University of California Press|year=1985|pages=79–80|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=QNcUXUwtQeMC&pg=PA80|isbn=978-0-520-05047-1|passage=You would have smiled inwardly on seeing with what admirable facility these coryphées of liberalism of 1828, these makers of 1830, easily sabre the first principles of civil liberty that we others, old royalists, would not abandon at any price.

  12. A dancer ranking above a member of the de ballet and below a soloist.

  13. (quote-journal)|month=March|year=1839|volume=IV|issue=III|page=157|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JJXPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA157|oclc=2258790|passage=Mademoiselle Coralie Montmorrillion, a talented artiste from the grand opera, at Paris, and now principal coryphée at the theatre royal— ...

  14. (quote-journal)|month=March|year=1841|volume=VII|page=241|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rm8AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA241|oclc=53840988|passage=A newspaper was in his hand, joy in his eyes, and as many capers in his toes as would make the fortunes of a Coryphée.

  15. (quote-book)|year=1847|page=27|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CM9SAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA27|oclc=771820449|passage=The Coryphées now arrive, as well as the Corps de Ballet; the former holding a higher rank and receiving a higher salary than the latter. They are pretty trim-built girls, with sallow faces and large eyes—the pallor that overspreads their features resulting from cosmetics and late hours. They work very hard, and get very little sleep; but they appear to be very merry amongst themselves for all that.

  16. (quote-journal)|date=18 August 1866|volume=IV|page=40|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.74721838&view=1up&seq=42|column=3|oclc=1047624878|passage=Go into the wealthiest and gayest quarters of the town and you shall see maidens of fifteen tripping along in scores with their young cheeks bechalked and bedizened in a manner that almost puts to the shame a coryphée of the grand opera.

  17. leader of the ancient Greek chorus, coryphaeus