say it: RISH-uh-loo
richelieu is a noun meaning "French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642)". It carries one recorded sense.
French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for richelieu come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.