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Tout ensemble   /taʊt ɑnsˈɑmbəl/   Listen
Tout ensemble

noun
1.
An assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole.  Synonym: ensemble.
2.
A total impression or effect of something made up of individual parts.
adverb
1.
With everything considered (and neglecting details).  Synonyms: all in all, altogether, on the whole.  "All in all, it's not so bad"






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"Tout ensemble" Quotes from Famous Books



... were happening to Gladys Orton-Wells. At her entrance into the big workroom, one hundred pairs of eyes had lifted, dropped, and, in that one look, condemned her hat, suit, blouse, veil and tout ensemble. When you are on piece-work you squander very little time gazing at uplift visitors in the ...
— Emma McChesney & Co. • Edna Ferber

... walking about, my eyes wide open, and admiring everything that presented itself to them. Everything was new to me, for everything is different in London from what it is elsewhere—the people, their language, the horses, the tout ensemble—even the stones of London are different from others—at least it appeared to me that I had never walked with the same ease and facility on the flag stones of a country town as on those of London; so I continued roving about till night came on, and then the splendour of some of ...
— The Pocket George Borrow • George Borrow

... the grand dome—entablature, silvered and decorated with imitative bronze ornaments; under the entablature, A VALANCE IN PELMETS, of puffed scarlet silk, would have an unparalleled grand effect, seen through the arches—with the TREBISOND TRELLICE PAPER, would make a TOUT ENSEMBLE, novel beyond example. On that Trebisond trellice paper, I confess, ladies, I ...
— The Absentee • Maria Edgeworth



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