Definitions for Degas

Degas de·gas

Spelling: [dee-gas]
IPA: /diˈgæs/

Degas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in Degas (adegs).

Definitions for Degas

noun

  1. Hilaire Germain Edgar [ee-ler zher-man ed-gar] /iˈlɛr ʒɛrˈmɛ̃ ɛdˈgar/ (Show IPA), 1834–1917, French impressionist painter.

verb (used with object)

  1. to free from gas.
  2. Electronics. to complete the evacuation of gases in (a vacuum tube).

Origin of Degas

First recorded in 1915-20; de- + gas

Examples for Degas

Somebody was saying he did not like Daumier, and degas preserved silence for a long while.

We first met at her Georgetown mansion, filled with stunning Impressionist art: Renoir, Picasso, degas.

From a stolen degas to Ansel Adams negatives at a garage sale, we uncover more tales of art gone astray.

degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Cezanne all frequented the circus and adopted it as a topic.

That sort of thing was done to death in France in the youth of degas.

To degas the toko-nook was "just name," "and it was nothing more."

degas was in the habit of calling him the Bouguereau of Naturalism.

There were some extraordinary pastels by degas forming a kind of frieze.

He also served as the pipeline between the moneyed class and a variety of Impressionists: Cezanne, Renoir, degas, and Seurat.

Alexandre went so far as to buy back a degas from its illicit owners.

Word Value for Degas
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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