Tancred

[ tang-krid ]

/ ˈtæŋ krɪd /

1078?–1112, Norman leader in the first Crusade.

Example sentences from the Web for tancred

And as Tancred dropped on a seat he loosened his neck-cloth with a thrust of the thumb.

A Transient Guest |Edgar Saltus
That night, for the first time, Tancred entered fully into the feelings of Tantalus and those of Sisyphus too.

A Transient Guest |Edgar Saltus
Tancred had tossed his cigar—a cigar that ranked nearly with a Havanese—into the finger-bowl.

A Transient Guest |Edgar Saltus
Meanwhile Miss Tancred sat absorbed in her dinner and let the storm pass over her head.

The Return of the Prodigal |May Sinclair

In the best parts of Coningsby and of Tancred he had shown himself a very careless writer of English.

Some Diversions of a Man of Letters |Edmund William Gosse

Tancred

/ (ˈtæŋkrɪd) /

died 1112, Norman hero of the First Crusade, who played a prominent part in the capture of Jerusalem (1099)