manquée

English

Adjective

manquée

1. feminine of manqué
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXXVII, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 356:

     “ […] and all things considered, I don't much regret that this affair with Miss Amory is manquée, though I wished for it once—in fact, all things considered, I am very glad of it.”

   • 1992, Joseph Litvak, “Poetry and Theatricality”, in Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 183:

     Daniel’s major assignment in the novel, then, is to make sure that this actress manquée stays manquée: that Gwendolen’s performance, like the much more cooperatively antitheatrical Mirah’s, shrinks to fit the contours of an interiority (if not of a marital domesticity) whose only “width”—in a reversal of the first paradox—comes from the spiritualizing impact of humiliation.

   • 1998 September 21, Ben Brantley, “THEATER REVIEW; The Stripper’s Mother: Ambition Rampant and Ugly”, in The New York Times, section E, page 1:

     In her hands, Rose seems at the show’s beginning more a garden-variety stage mother and actress manquée, a wistful but often affectionate nag, than Merman’s elemental force of nature.

   • 2013, June Brown, chapter 14, in Before the Year Dot, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

     Miss Catley adored the English language, poetry and plays; I think she was an ‘actress manquée’.

French

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Participle

manquée f sg

1. feminine singular of manqué

Further reading

• “manquée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.