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nom de guerre
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synonyms: nom de plume, sobriquet, cognomen, appellation ???
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Definition:a pseudonym
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The [Scarlet Pimpernel] is the nom de guerre of its hero and protagonist, a chivalrous Englishman who rescues aristocrats before they are sent to the guillotine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Scarlet_Pimpernel&oldid=854149721
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So we at least thought; as for my uncle, his fatal readiness to pay pretty widows (who had perhaps never been married) and countesses (whose high-sounding titles were probably no more than noms de guerre)
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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