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dumas
/ˈduməz/
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What does dumas mean?
noun
- plural of duma
proper noun
- A surname from French.
- Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), French novelist and playwright
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proper noun
- A city in Desha County, Arkansas.
- A town in Tippah County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Clark County, Missouri.
- A city, the county seat of Moore County, Texas.
- plural of Duma
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈduməz/
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All this is worthy of note, as it is essential for understanding the work of Alexandre Dumas fils.
Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls.
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Alexandre Dumas, who recently wrote a short romance upon the same subject, only made a translation of an English work by that author.
I suppose no woman could have been further in person, voice, and temperament from Dumas’ appealing heroine than the veteran actress who first acquainted me with her.
Huxham mentions the fusion of the rectum and colon with the bladder, and similar instances are reported by Dumas and Baillie.