va-nu-pieds

• Imagine a va-nu-pieds peddling a diamond tiara! " —  The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
• A va-nu-pieds disguised into a general by a Corsican adventurer masquerading as an emperor. —  A Set of Six
• The Princess only maintained herself in the place through the aid of the rabble _va-nu-pieds_, who feasted and danced all night at her expense, and who shouted in her ears a hundred ribald jests against Mazarin, compelling both herself and her son to repeat them. —  Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
• _va-nu-pieds_, 205; forced to take refuge hastily in the citadel of Montrond, 263. —  Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
• 'How,' I cried, thyself and thy friend Madame de Bois-Sombre, were you not enough to fill it, that you should throw open that chamber to good-for-nothings, to _va-nu-pieds_, to the very rabble? ' —  A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen

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