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Meaning of generaless | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A female general.
  2. The wife of a general.

Examples

“I tried to shield my nakedness with hands and leaves, but Tatu the amazon generaless, pulled away my fingers and put one of those many-thonged whips into them.”
“Bamie—Bamie “the Major Generaless,” as Ellie called her—was sent on in advance to Cambridge that summer to find suitable quarters off campus.”
“If it had pleased her Majesty's Ministers to appoint a lady as next successor to Lord Dufferin, for instance, they could scarcely have given her the rank of Governess General—or Governor Generaless of India.”
“Back then, Annibale spoke of the tenants with deference. He said "Signor Commendatore Pirco." He said "Her Excellency the generaless Puti di Valmescia" (the tenant of the third floor).”
“1886, Yves Guyot, English and French morality, from a Frenchman's point of view (The Modern Press) pp. 36–37, ditto The Generaless Catherine Booth read a letter which she addressed to the Queen, summoning her in the name of her religion and of her sex to dry up the stream of impurity.”
“If the Duke of Marlborough becomes Governor-General of Canada the Duchess would be Governor-Generaless, and as she is one of the Vanderbilts, the New York 400 would move over to Ottawa for the winter season, and there would be high jinks in that town.”
“General and Generaless, six daughters and two sons with four sons-in-law constitute the family of the most terrible atheists and the most flapdoodlish or the most kind Spiritualists.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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