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merveilleuse
/mɜːveɪˈjɜːz/
noun 2
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3ADJ.
ultra-fashionable
MERVEILLEUSE + NOUN
directory
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in
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noun
1
A fashionable young Frenchwoman of the late 18th-century, characterized by extravagant dress sense and anti-revolutionary ideas.
There were the mad fashions sported by the extraordinarily (by turns over- and under-) dressed Incroyables and Merveilleuses, the guzzling of champagne, and the ingestion of bountiful meals in smart restaurants (a recent invention).
You are the reason I arrived indecently late at Madame de Volanges's and had all the old ladies thinking I was a Merveilleuse.
noun
1
A female merveilleux.
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’.
The Merveilleuses survived the Incroyables by a couple of years.
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There were the mad fashions sported by the extraordinarily (by turns over- and under-) dressed Incroyables and Merveilleuses, the guzzling of champagne, and the ingestion of bountiful meals in smart r
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You are the reason I arrived indecently late at Madame de Volanges's and had all the old ladies thinking I was a Merveilleuse.
Wiktionary03
The female equivalents were called Merveilleuses and adopted Greek dress and espoused a neo-classical nostalgia.
Wiktionary04
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’.
Wiktionary05
The Merveilleuses survived the Incroyables by a couple of years.
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