Definition of Marie Antoinette

1. Noun. Queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular; her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793).

Generic synonyms: Queen

Definition of Marie Antoinette

1. Noun. Someone with an extravagant and luxurious lifestyle. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Marie Antoinette (current term)
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Literary usage of Marie Antoinette

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In her private life, Marie Antoinette may justly be blamed for her prodigality, for having, between 1774 and 1777, by certain notorious escapades (sleigh ..."

2. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1918)
"It begins with portrayal of the light, careless, sportive life of Marie Antoinette when resident at Little Trianon, in 1789, her thirty-third year, ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1904)
"Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette something with the King. ... From the first arrival of Marie-Antoinette there was laid up against her a fund of grudge and ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"From July 14 onward Marie Antoinette headed the party of reaction and armed opposition to the Revolution, and became unwittingly the means of her husband's ..."

5. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1908)
"The popular hatred of Marie Antoinette sprang from a sound instinct. We shall never know how much or how little truth there was in those frightful charges ..."

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