sieur
Noun
Meaning
Sir; -- a title of respect used by the French.
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Examples
After one ship was sent to France to ask for additional support, three ships were financed and prepared by the king of France and put under the command of Sieur De Bois le Comte, a nephew of Villegagnon.
French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle citation and Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto would encounter the Chickasaw in that area, in the 16th century.
Sporadic mentions were subsequently made by Sieur Dubois and other contemporary writers.sfn Baron Edmond de Sélys Longchamps coined the name Raphus solitarius for these birds in 1848, as he believed the accounts referred to a species of dodo.
Fowler, p. 35. He told Washington that France's claim to the region was superior to that of the British, since René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle had explored the Ohio Country nearly a century earlier.
In 1669, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle led a French expedition to the Ohio River, becoming the first Europeans to see it.
Romance writer Nora Roberts writes erotic thrillers under the pen name J.D. Robb, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens used the aliases Mark Twain and Sieur Louis de Conte for different works.