Both Uses of
coup
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- …was a steamtram, but also farther away from the madding crowd in Wicklow, rightly termed the garden of Ireland, an ideal neighbourhood for elderly wheelmen so long as it didn't come down, and in the wilds of Donegal where if report spoke true the coup d'oeil was exceedingly grand though the lastnamed locality was not easily getatable so that the influx of visitors was not as yet all that it might be considering the signal benefits to be derived from it while Howth with its historic…†
Chpt 16
- Different ways of bringing off a coup.†
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
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(coup as in: deposed in the coup) the sudden overthrow of a government by use of limited forceeditor's notes: This sense of coup is also called a coup d'état.