olivette

Definitions

Examples

• This, that he thought at the time to be an exclusively English invention, was the old Provenal dance of the olivette.

• Valentine seizes his opportunity, passes himself off as the Captain, and marries Olivette at the request of the Countess herself.

• She is at the house of the Seneschal, and is surprised there by Valentine, who has climbed her balcony expecting to find Olivette.

• Both uncle and nephew then renounce Olivette until the Countess returns and an explanation is made.

• We were honored next day by a call from an officer of the Olivette, with his assistant.