How to Use Napoleonic in a Sentence
Napoleonic
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Napoleonic tailoring is reworked through a modern lens, and ruffled necklines and opulent bows overtake more demure details.
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Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
2 June 2026
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The church wedding was actually the couple's second wedding ceremony, as required by Napoleonic law.
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Francesca Pellegrini,
Vanity Fair,
19 Apr. 2026
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Things are dialled up in various suites, like a Terrace Suite with a red and black scheme that nods to Napoleonic uniforms and Christian Dior’s Parisian apartment.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 May 2026
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Free transit guarantees have been a feature of every major international order since the Congress of Vienna ended the Napoleonic wars in 1815.
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Vivek Krishnamurthy,
The Conversation,
5 May 2026
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That year, French propagandist Louis Dubroca, a mouthpiece of the Napoleonic government, published a slanted, factually incorrect biography of Dessalines.
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Julia Gaffield,
The Conversation,
15 June 2026
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In War and Peace, Tolstoy’s concept—among a million other things—was to show how the young people who lived through the Napoleonic invasion went on to lead Russia’s first democratic uprising, the Decembrist Revolt of 1825.
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Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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