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TATI

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Overview

TATI (noun)
  The noun TATI has 1 sense:

1. French filmmaker (1908-1982)play

  Familiarity information: TATI used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


TATI (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

French filmmaker (1908-1982)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jacques Tati; Jacques Tatischeff; Tati

Instance hypernyms:

film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)


 Context examples 


Moti laughed and shook the salt water from his eyes, and together they paddled in to the pounded-coral beach where Tati's grass walls through the cocoanut-palms showed golden in the setting sun.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He would build a patriarchal grass house like Tati's, and have it and the valley and the schooner filled with dark-skinned servitors.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was Moti, the youngest son of Tati, the chief, and this was Tahiti, and beyond that smoking reef lay the sweet land of Papara and the chief's grass house by the river's mouth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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