soupçon

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"Too much of that sort of thing I think there is in Doctor V-------," pursued Churchill: "a touch of absence of mind, giving the idea of high abstraction, becomes a learned man well enough; but then it should only be slight, as a _soupçon_ of rouge, which may become a pretty woman; all depends on the measure, the taste, with which these things are managed -- put on."

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  1. French, from Old French sospeçon, suspicion, from Latin suspectiō, suspectiōn-, fear, from suspectus, past participle of suspicere, to suspect; see suspect.

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  1. French, a suspicion: see suspicion.
 

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