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Etude   Listen
noun
etude  n.  
1.
A composition in the fine arts which is intended, or may serve, for a study.
2.
(Mus.) A study; an exercise; a piece for practice of some special point of technical execution.






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"Etude" Quotes from Famous Books



... Antiquities, and in 1827 delivered at Berlin a course of Lectures on the Theory and History of the Fine Arts, (Berlin, 1827). These were followed by his Criticisms, (Berlin, 1828), and his Reflexion sur l'Etude des Langues Asiatiques, addressed to Sir James Mackintosh. Being accused of a secret leaning to Roman Catholicism, (Kryptocatholicisme,) he ably defended himself in a reply entitled Explication de quelques ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel

... for me when school began again after that ideal vacation. The skies they were ashen and sober, and the leaves they were crisped and sere. But anyhow I was still en quatrieme, and Barty was in it too—and we sat next to each other in "L'etude des grands." ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier

... gout pour l'etude; On ne saurait ici mieux employer son temps; Otsego n'est pas gai—mais, tout est habitude; Paris vous deplairait fort au premier moment; Et qui jouit de soi dans une solitude, Rentrant au monde, est sur d'en ...
— James Fenimore Cooper • Mary E. Phillips

... that, in case of a defeat, his favourable report might have been ascribed to the indulgence of a friend for the rash attempt of a young English gentleman. The work was printed and published, under the title of Essai sur l'Etude de la Litterature, a Londres, chez T. Becket et P. A. de Hondt, 1761, in a small volume in duodecimo: my dedication to my father, a proper and pious address, was composed the twenty-eighth of May: Dr. Maty's letter is dated June 16; and I received the first copy (June 23) at Alresford, two days ...
— Memoirs of My Life and Writings • Edward Gibbon

... Trimestriel consacre a l'etude des langues et des litteratures romanes. Publie par P. Meyer et G. Paris. Paris, 1872, still in ...
— Italian Popular Tales • Thomas Frederick Crane

... [357] Meyners d'Estrez, "Etude ethnographique sur le lezard chez les peuples malais et polynesiens," L'Anthropologie, 1892; see also, as regards the lizard in Samoan folk-lore, Globus, ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... il se couchait de tres bonne heure, il lui arrivait de s'eveiller au milieu de la nuit. Hante par son idee fixe, il ouvrait la fenetre. Une fois rassure, avant de regagner son lit il allait, une bougie a la main, revoir l'etude qui etait en train. Si l'impression etait bonne, il reveillait sa femme pour lui faire partager sa satisfaction. Et pour la dedommager de ce derangement, il l'invitait a faire une ...
— Since Cezanne • Clive Bell

... like to, indeed, but I am afraid it is late. Darya Mihailovna wishes to hear a new etude of Thalberg's, so I must practise and have it ready. Besides, I am doubtful, I must confess, whether my visit could afford you ...
— Rudin • Ivan Turgenev



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