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milieu
/mɪlˈju/
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What does milieu mean?
noun
- An environment or setting; a medium; environs
- A social environment or setting.
- A group of people with a common point of view; a social class or group.
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IPA pronunciation
/mɪlˈju/
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He was walking slowly in the beau milieu of Brentford town, without any company, but with a brown lap-dog with long ears, two pointers, two pages, three footmen, and a vis-a-vis following him.
That children should be brought into close relationship with the stars and other celestial bodies is to be expected from the milieu of folk-life, and the feeling of kinship with all the phenomena of nature.
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It may be correct to adduce, as modern writers do, the weakness of feminine intelligence to social conditions, and it may, perhaps, be for this reason that the future of woman lies in changing the feminine milieu.
Pouchet says: " En general au milieu du moyen age les sciences sont essentiellement chretiennes, leur but est tout-a-fait religieux, et elles sembent beaucoup moins s'inquieter de l'avancement intellectuel de l'homme que de son salut eternel."
Perfect masters of their own inherent powers, controlled with a fine understanding of the art of life and of love, adapting themselves with pliancy and intelligence to the milieu in which they find themselves, they will unafraid enjoy life to the utmost.