Definitions for Lesseps

Lesseps Les·seps

Spelling: [les-uh ps; French le-seps]
IPA: /ˈlɛs əps; French lɛˈsɛps/

Lesseps is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in Lesseps (eelpsss).

Definitions for Lesseps

noun

  1. Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de [fur-dn-and muh-ree,, vee-kawnt duh French, fer-dee-nahn ma-ree,, vee-kawnt duh] /ˈfɜr dnˌænd məˈri,, viˈkɔnt də French, fɛr diˈnɑ̃ maˈri,, vi kɔ̃t də/ (Show IPA), 1805–94, French engineer and diplomat: promoter of the Suez Canal.

Examples for Lesseps

When Lesseps had gazed his full, he called 'Mazzini, Mazzini!'

But Mazzini, warned by his experience of Lesseps, sternly repelled all proposals for negotiation; and the struggle was renewed.

Lesseps began, 'We must have the Commissioners of the Debt on the enquête.'

Lesseps told him his name, and a long conversation followed.

The fact was that, from first to last, Lesseps had been the dupe of the unscrupulous men who were ruling France.

A fortnight after this incident, Hugo received his friend Lesseps and his family to dinner, according to his weekly custom.

The French government sustains Oudinot and disclaims Lesseps.

Seems to me we've no right to chuck stones at poor old Lesseps.

Lesseps was divided between his feelings as a man of honour and his unwillingness to oppose his countrymen.

If you want to cut through an isthmus, you have Lesseps; if you want to create a sea, you have Roudaire.

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