D'Orsay Definition

dôr-sā
noun
A shoe having an upper part that is cut away at the instep to reveal the arch of the foot.
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Origin of D'Orsay

  • After Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count d'Orsay (1801–1852), French dandy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

D'Orsay Sentence Examples

  • He visited England in 1842 and again in 1845, sat to D'Orsay for his portrait, and, dying of fever in London in 1846, was buried at Kensal Green.

  • Later, the names of Turner, Rossetti, Whistler, Leigh Hunt, Carlyle (whose house in Cheyne Row is preserved as a public memorial), Count D'Orsay, and Isambard Brunel, are intimately connected with Chelsea.

  • In London, where he had taken up his abode, together with Arese, Fialin (says Persigny), Doctor Conneau and Vaudrey, he was at first well received in society, being on friendly terms with Count d'Orsay and Disraeli, and frequenting the salon of Lady Blessington.

  • On a d'Orsay, the sides of the shoe are cut low so the arch of the foot is exposed.

  • During the pilot episode of the Drop Dead Diva TV show viewers meet Deb Dobkins (Brooke D'Orsay) and Jane Bingum (Brooke Elliot).

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