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Colette

[ US /ˈkoʊˈɫɛt/ ]
NOUN
  1. French writer of novels about women (1873-1954)

How To Use Colette In A Sentence

  • After Colette left he cleared his throat and looked through a newspaper, his long fingers scrabbling a bit at the pages.
  • Be happy. It's one way of being wise.- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette.
  • Paul watched carefully the vagaries of her excitement, and kept his sharp hawk's-eye upon everything; he had quite made up his mind not to dangle for two years, as he had round Colette de Rosen. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877
  • In the moralistic atmosphere of 1950s Hollywood, it was tricky to present Colette's account of the risqué demimondaine, and its glorification of the courtesans who relied on wealthy playboys and aristocrats to live in a state of opulence. France's Courtesan Queen Returns to the Silver Screen
  • Music is love in search of a word. Colette 
  • At the beginning of the party, at least, a young, fashionable partygoer named Nicolette Santos was dancing in front of the pit for a camera crew from a local television station and a few of the photographers covering the event. Contours, Culture and Cocktails
  • You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette 
  • Love is not an honorable sentiment. Colette 
  • As Nicholas and Colette gaily threw horseshoes, laughing merrily and cheering the other on, Caroline stood at the back.
  • Adapted from Colette's eponymous novel, the film follows the affair of Lea de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer), a retired, luscious courtesan in her fifty's, and Cheri (Rupert Friend), the exquisite, wanton son of a rival demimondaine (Kathy Bates). Erica Abeel: The Cheatin' Heart of Cheri
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