Conservatoire
[kәn'sә:vәtwɑ:]
Definition
(n.) A public place of instruction in any special branch, esp. music and the arts. [See Conservatory, 3].
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Examples
- Cugnot, in 1769, built a steam carriage, which is still preserved in the museum of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers in Paris. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- What had he to do with music or the Conservatoire--he who could hardly distinguish one note from another? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The young ladies of the Conservatoire, being very much frightened, made rather a tremulous exhibition on the two grand pianos. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Not discouraged, the Abbé then called upon Puillet of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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