precieuses

There is the slang of the affected lady as well as of the precieuses.

Les Miserables 2008

Outre le fait que le Pinku enragea quelques instants qu'on le prive de quelques precieuses meches de cheveux vu qu'il n'en avait point de nombreux, il comprit de suite!

pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

Sinon les deux Tomes completent donc ma precieuses collections de legendes chinoises comme "la Peregrination vers l'Ouest".

pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

Ninon and Mme. de la Sabliere -- a world which naturally did not find the decorum of the precieuses at all to its taste; the witticism of Ninon, who defined them as the "Jansenists of love," is well known.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

The precieuses, with their sentimental theories and naive reserves, have had their day.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

The old days were far away when she presided over the literary coterie at Lausanne, speculated upon the mystery of love, talked of the possibility of tender and platonic friendships between men and women, after the fashion of the precieuses, and wept bitter tears over the faithlessness of the embryo historian.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

There were military processions and the fêting of the French military mission, special honours for General du Moriez, who brought "_les precieuses reliques de Napoleon_" to Poland, and of

Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Stephen Graham 1929

Would not the warriors and the wits, the patient ladies of high degree and of many children, and even the 'precieuses ridicules' themselves, turn over in their graves if they could so much as imagine the contents of the single street in modern New York where Honora lived?

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

Would not the warriors and the wits, the patient ladies of high degree and of many children, and even the 'precieuses ridicules' themselves, turn over in their graves if they could so much as imagine the contents of the single street in modern New York where Honora lived?

A Modern Chronicle — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

Would not the warriors and the wits, the patient ladies of high degree and of many children, and even the 'precieuses ridicules' themselves, turn over in their graves if they could so much as imagine the contents of the single street in modern New York where Honora lived?

A Modern Chronicle — Volume 05 Winston Churchill 1909