Empire
/ˈɛmpaɪɚ/ adjective C2- Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804–1814).
- Having the waistline just below the bust; featuring an empire waist.
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“This, gentlemen, is Colonel Sebastian Moran, once of Her Majesty’s Indian Army, and the best heavy-game shot that our Eastern Empire has ever produced.
Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Dantès remained a prisoner, and heard not the noise of the fall of Louis XVIII.’s throne, or the still more tragic destruction of the empire.
During this time the empire made its last conscription, and every man in France capable of bearing arms rushed to obey the summons of the emperor.
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