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NAPOLEON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
Synonyms:
nap; Napoleon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("Napoleon" is a kind of...):
card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A rectangular piece of pastry with thin flaky layers and filled with custard cream
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("napoleon" is a kind of...):
French pastry (sweet filled pastry made of especially puff paste)
Sense 3
Meaning:
French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)
Synonyms:
Bonaparte; Little Corporal; Napoleon; Napoleon Bonaparte; Napoleon I
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
emperor (the male ruler of an empire)
full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)
Derivation:
Napoleonic (of or relating to or like Napoleon Bonaparte)
Context examples:
Still, if we had known that there never could be peace between Napoleon and ourselves, and that this was only the end of a round and not of the battle, we should have been better advised had we fought it out without a break.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You said, ‘I desire to possess a copy of Devine’s Napoleon, and am prepared to pay you ten pounds for the one which is in your possession.’ Is that right?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Grandfather and Napoleon.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Even the imminent outbreak of war and the renewed threats of Napoleon were secondary things in the eyes of the sportsmen—and the sportsmen in those days made a large half of the population.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Six plaster casts of Napoleon were drying in the passage.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She would like the relics of great people better, for I've seen her Napoleon's cocked hat and gray coat, his baby's cradle and his old toothbrush, also Marie Antoinette's little shoe, the ring of Saint Denis, Charlemagne's sword, and many other interesting things.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
There we left him then in the dim-lit London drawing-room, beside himself with pity for this shallow and most artificial woman, while without, at the edge of the Piccadilly curb, there stood the high dark berline ready to start him upon that long journey which was to end in his chase of the French fleet over seven thousand miles of ocean, his meeting with it, his victory, which confined Napoleon’s ambition for ever to the land, and his death, coming, as I would it might come to all of us, at the crowning moment of his life.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Such a fact must tell against the theory that the man who breaks them is influenced by any general hatred of Napoleon.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It all seems to centre round that bust of Napoleon which I bought for this very room about four months ago.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It’s the Napoleon bust business again,” said Lestrade.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
