Milieu

Examples

• It is a horrible tyranny of a fixed milieu, where each piece of furniture is a commandment-stone. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The man who built it came from a MILIEU where all the dishes are put on the table at once. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Mrs. Hatch's MILIEU was one which he had once assiduously frequented, and now as devoutly shunned. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She was almost a parvenue in their old cultured milieu. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I don't know that the arts have a milieu here, any of them; they're more like a very thinly settled outskirt. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• You live in their milieu? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She was afraid at the depth of her feeling against the home, the milieu, the whole atmosphere and condition of this obsolete life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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