Sentence examples for milord from inspiring English sources
The word "milord" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is a polite and formal way to address a male member of the aristocracy or a high-ranking official. Example: "Good morning, milord. I am honored to be in your presence."
noun
An English nobleman, especially one traveling Europe in grand style; a wealthy British gentleman.
Maybe it is the contrast between these absurdities, and damehood's cosier, far more inclusive associations with aprons, wisdom, occasional shouts of "behind you", that allows new beneficiaries to exult to a point that might sound immodest were they alluding, say, to a future of being called sir or milord.
Brutus, begun in London and accompanied by a Discours à milord Bolingbroke, was scarcely a success in 1730; La Mort de César was played only in a college (1735); in Eriphyle (1732) the apparition of a ghost, as in Hamlet, was booed by the audience.
The French Republic of Bohemia has become a Belgian colony (though Gigli still trolls the Casbah dreamily, like an expatriate milord).
He's not the most polished dancer before the public today, but as long as he's in the right role, that is part of his charm: Do we ask a tiger killer to dance like a poet or a milord?
The Twickenham eminence Lord Wakefield forecast a game played on artificial surfaces, its teams boasting "greater professionalism - but only, of course, purely as an attitude of mind" (of course, milord), and a midwinter break which these amateurs could "devote to other strenuous activities like skiing".
As well as becoming the Count, our hero takes on at least eight other aliases during the course of the novel, including Sinbad the Sailor and, less believably, an English milord.
He got the swagger, and the way it was a kind of patrimony for this generation, descending from the milords to anyone in their aura.
Francis Wheen - Journandst and writer Brendan Simms's Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (Allen Lane, £18.99) is a potent blend of moral outrage and scrupulous research, exposing the culpability of those apparently civilised and intelligent British politicians - John Major, Douglas Hurd, Malcolm Rifkind, milords Owen and Carrington - who betrayed the people of Bosnia.
This Boeuf collected the most brilliant figures of a brilliant epoch, the best-known international painters, writers, poets, poseurs, actors, and eccentrics: English milords, dressmakers, and dilettantes; the most talk-of women; the most openheanded millionaires, and the most entertaining parasites.
The milords flocked to the Forum for lessons on the inevitable erosion of grandeur.
Of his generation, Ted Cullinan is perhaps the most far removed from the technocratic world of Milords Foster and Rogers, his buildings having more in common with something you might come across in the Hobbits' Shire than the factory floor.
