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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the French merveilleux.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]merveilleux (plural merveilleux)
- (historical) Contemporary names for an extravagantly dressed French fop or ‘fine lady’ of the period of the Directory (1795–1799), who affected a revival of the classical costume of Ancient Greece.
- 1892 October 19, The Daily News, page 5/1:
- The ‘merveilleuse’ of the Directory in France. The ‘merveilleuse’, or ‘ultra-fashionable’, as the writer..rather inadequately translates her title, ‘walked..half naked in the Champs Elysees’.
- 1898, Octave Uzanne, chapter I, in Mary Loyd, transl., Fashion in Paris: The Various Phases of Feminine Taste and Æsthetics from 1797 to 1897, page 8:
- The Ecrouelleux, the Inconcevables, the Merveilleux, with their chins sunk in their huge cravats.
- ibidem, page 19:
- The Merveilleuses survived the Incroyables by a couple of years.
Translations
[edit]French fop during the Directory who affected ancient Greek classical costume
References
[edit]- “‖Merveilleux, -euse” on page 365/1 of § 1 (M; edited by Henry Bradley) of part ii (M–N) of volume VI (L–N; 1st ed., 1908) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
- “‖merveilleux, -euse” in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989)
Further reading
[edit]- Incroyables and Merveilleuses on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]merveilleux (feminine merveilleuse, masculine plural merveilleux, feminine plural merveilleuses)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: merveilleux
Further reading
[edit]- “merveilleux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Old French merveillos, etc.
Noun
[edit]merveilleux m (feminine singular merveilleuse, masculine plural merveilleux, feminine plural merveilleuses)
Descendants
[edit]- French: merveilleux
References
[edit]- merveilleux on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
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