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Revue   /rɪvjˈu/   Listen
Revue

noun
1.
A variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians.  Synonym: review.






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"Revue" Quotes from Famous Books



... personal affection and sympathy, though by no means admiration, for M. de l'Aubepine; and we would fain do the little in our power towards introducing him favorably to the American public. The ensuing tale is a translation of his "Beatrice; ou la Belle Empoisonneuse," recently published in "La Revue Anti-Aristocratique." This journal, edited by the Comte de Bearhaven, has for some years past led the defence of liberal principles and popular rights with a faithfulness and ability worthy of ...
— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... friend of Clara Schumann. She was thirteen years his senior, yet their spirits were as children together. From the first he was to her, "Johannes," and she was "Clara" to him. A few of their letters have been published in the "Revue des deux Mondes," and this woman, who was a great-grandmother, and had sixty years before captured a world, then in her seventy-fifth year, wrote to her "Dear Johannes" with all the gentle fervor of a girl of twenty, congratulating him on ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians • Elbert Hubbard

... inner salon was of a general character on the whole, and, as one caught sentences of it here and there, seemed for the most part to relate to the literature and news of the day—to the last important paper in the Revue des Deux Mondes, to the new drama at the Odeon, or to the article on foreign politics in the Journal des Debats. But in the outer salon the talk was to the last degree shoppy, and overflowed with the argot of the studios. Some few medical students ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards

... still wanting for the co-ordination of them in the point of view of the signification of the language and communication of animals among themselves. It has not been made in a general sense. —Translated for the Popular Science Monthly from the Revue Scientifique. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 • Various

... reassembled for breakfast next day) had bottled most of their exuberance. Understanding silences were sandwiched between yarns. A wag searched for the Pagliacci record, and set the gramophone to churn out "Vesti la Giubba." The guests stayed to listen politely to a few revue melodies, and then slipped away. The rest turned in immediately, in view of the jobs ...
— Cavalry of the Clouds • Alan Bott

... publie a Londres.—Le COURRIER de l'EUROPE, fonde en 1840, paraissant le Samedi, donnes dans chaque numero les nouvelles de la semaine, les meilleurs articles de tous les journaux de Paris, la Semaine Dramatique par Th. Gautier ou J. Janin, la Revue de Paris par Pierre Durand, et reproduit en entier les romans, nouvelles, etc., en vogue par les premiers ecrivains ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 • Various

... products of the innumerable soundings taken in most of the seas. He arranged the results in a work which has become classical with the beautiful atlas of submarine drawings which accompany it. Though he never slackened in his own especial work, he made much of the work of others. The "Revue des Progrs de la Gologie," with which he enriched the "Annales des Mines" for twenty years, would have been sufficient to engross the time of a less active scientific man, and one less ready to grasp ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various



Words linked to "Revue" :   variety show, review, follies, variety



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