Definition of Langtry

1. Noun. British actress and mistress of the prince who later became Edward VII (1853-1929).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Langtry

Langhans'-type giant cells
Langhans' cells
Langhans' layer
Langhans' stria
Langhans giant cell
Langi
Langkawi
Langley
Langley's granules
Langmuir
Langmuir circulation
Langmuir trough
Langobard
Langside
Langston Hughes
Langtry (current term)
Languas speciosa
Langue d'oc
Langue d'oc French
Langue d'oil
Langue d'oil French
Languedoc
Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedocian
Lani
Laniidae
Lanius
Lanius borealis
Lanius excubitor
Lanius lucovicianus

Literary usage of Langtry

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

1. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1918)
"LILLIE Langtry. 1852—19—. EMILY CHARLOTTE LE BRETON, who by her first ... Thirty years have passed (1912) since Mrs. Langtry made her first visit to America ..."

2. The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical by William Winter (1913)
"LILLIE Langtry. 1852—19—. EMILY CHARLOTTE LE BRETON, who by her first ... Thirty years have passed (1912) since Mrs. Langtry made her first visit to America ..."

3. Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of ...by Samuel Atkins Eliot by Samuel Atkins Eliot (1911)
"His father, Joseph Langtry, had come to Massachusetts from New Brunswick, ... During his boyhood, Albert P. Langtry was brought up in the village, ..."

4. Some Players: Personal Sketches by Lillie (West) Brown [Buck, Amy Leslie (1899)
"Mrs. Langtry chartered a superb yacht lying at Cowes during the Queen's respite at Osbourne. Trunks, valets, butlers, maids, and "Joe," Langtry's famous ..."

5. My Theatrical and Musical Recollections by Emily Soldene (1897)
"What do you think of the relative artistic claims of Mrs. Brown Potter and Mrs. Langtry ? " said he one day. " Well," ¡-aid I, " I think Mrs. Brown Potter ..."

6. Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography by Wilfrid Meynell (1903)
"At the end of days, notes of admiration, not notes of derision, became his occupation in presence of Mrs. Langtry. He even corresponded with Mr. Gladstone ..."

7. The Life and Letters of Charles Samuel Keene by George Somes Layard (1892)
"Mrs. Langtry.—At the RA dinner.—" Mr. Punch " has to explain a joke.—Mr. John Clayton and the 'bus conductor.— " What's the good o' the W ? ..."

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