Words similar to ancien

Example sentences for: ancien

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Her father was a parvenu who used to be a bon vivant and the enfant terrible of his clique but became a laissez-faire entrepreneur in the entrepôt business and then accepted a post as a chargé d'affaires, which entitled him to a UN laissez-passer, (working to improve detente, and rapprochement with the ancien régime), though he remained a bit of a roué, having an affaire with the au pair.
That look--simple yet richly paved with glitter and colored enamel, altogether different from the frothy rococo excesses of the ancien
There are also references to 17 th -century pirates, Arabian Nights sultans, Regency bucks, fin-de-siècle dandies and depraved noblemen of the ancien r(gime .
Absolute power was the dominant feature of what post-Revolutionary France called the Ancien Régime.
The nationalism that Napoleon invoked in his conquest of Europe’s Ancien Régime turned against him in Spain, Russia, and Germany.