Get Free Checker

doyenne

[ US /ˌdɔɪˈɛn/ ]
[ UK /dˈɔ‍ɪən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a woman who is the senior member of a group

How To Use doyenne In A Sentence

  • Huffington Post's co-founder Arianna Huffington, is often described as the doyenne of the liberal political commentary in the United States and is a regular fixture on the cable TV news circuit opining on political news of the day. Reuters: Top News
  • ‘I think [she] dresses badly,’ the doyenne of Paris fashion told The Daily Telegraph.
  • She's playing chic, statuesque Jacqueline, whose 25th anniversary as the doyenne of restaurateurs on the St Tropez waterfront is marked by the presentation of a bouquet: a case of Goodyear for the roses.
  • She laments that she will no longer be the doyenne of Boston society that she once was.
  • She was the doyenne of the staff, having been with the school since its very early days in Tirol. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • Eventually I found resolution in the idea of Bonnie Fuller, doyenne of celebrity journalism.
  • In vignettes centering on a fiery local waitress, a seventh-generation fisherman, the doyenne of a fading lesbian power culture, an unrepentant jinx, and other characters for whom the term colorful does scant justice, he introduces a community bound by tradition, superstition, recalcitrance, and a profound, more visceral than affectionate love for the sea. Undefined
  • Who actually thinks Andrea Mitchell is a "doyenne" of the left? "Fake interviews."
  • She talks to the former doyenne of daytime TV about her comeback.
  • The doyenne of British ethicists made the case for separating the twins.
View all