Definitionadj. (of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern
Last update: June 9, 2015
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The name of the city was taken from that of the river, which in turn is supposed to represent a corruption by the French of the original Indian name, Moingona, - the French at first using the abbreviation "moire," and calling the river "la riviere des moires" and then, the name having become associated with the Trappist monks, changing it into "la riviere des moines." [Please select]
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[11] See Greppo: _Mémoire sur les laraires de l'empereur Alexandre Sevère_.' [Please select]
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--Dureau de la Malle: _Mémoire sur la position de la roche tarpeienne_, in the _Mémoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions_, 1819.' [Please select]
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454; Butler's Lives of Fénelon and Bossuet; Abbé Ledieu's Mémoire de Bossuet; Bentley, Memoirs de Madame de Montespan, xlviii. [Please select]
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On the relations of consciousness to action see Bergson's _Matière et Mémoire, passim_, especially chap. [Please select]
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[712] 'Mémoire sur la Production Artificielle des Monstrosités,' 1862, pp. [Please select]
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[794] For China, _see_ 'Mémoire sur les Chinois,' tom, xi. [Please select]
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Religion is a beautiful thing when brought to bear on everyday life, and not put off and on with your moire antique. [Please select]
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Prenons la pensée pure, telle qu'elle s'effectue dans le rêve ou la rêverie, ou dans la mémoire du passé. [Please select]
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(2) A mémoire written by De la Chesnaye in 1696--see _Documents Nouvelle France_, 1492-1712--distinctly refers to a _coureur's_ trail from Lake Superior to Lake Assiniboine or Lake Winnipeg.' [Please select]
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