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Saxe

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Saxe [saks]
n
(Placename) the French name for Saxony
Saxe2
n
(Biographies / Saxe, Hermann Maurice, comte de (1696-1750) M, Frenchnational of birth: German, MILITARY: general) Hermann Maurice (ɛrman mɔris) comte de Saxe. 1696-1750, French marshal born in Saxony: he distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48)
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Noun1.SaxeSaxe - a French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750)
comte de Saxe, Hermann Maurice Saxe, Marshal Saxe
2.SaxeSaxe - an area in Germany around the upper Elbe river; the original home of the Saxons
Sachsen, Saxony


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The Prince of Saxe Leinitzer twirled his heavy moustache and sank into a chair between the two women.
The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
When she went into Kitty's little room, a pretty, pink little room, full of knick-knacks in vieux saxe, as fresh, and pink, and white, and gay as Kitty herself had been two months ago, Dolly remembered how they had decorated the room the year before together, with what love and gaiety.
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She submitted cheerfully to the purple satin and yellow tuftings of the Welland drawing-room, to its sham Buhl tables and gilt vitrines full of modern Saxe.
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