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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French Merveilleuse.
Pronunciation
Noun
Merveilleuse (plural Merveilleuses)
- (historical) A fashionable young Frenchwoman of the late 18th-century, characterized by extravagant dress sense and anti-revolutionary ideas.
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 542: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).
- 2007, Helen Constantine, translating Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons (1782), Penguin 2007, p. 111:
- You are the reason I arrived indecently late at Madame de Volanges's and had all the old ladies thinking I was a Merveilleuse.
2006, Andrew Hussey, Paris: The Secret History, Penguin, published 2007, page 270:The female equivalents were called Merveilleuses and adopted Greek dress and espoused a neo-classical nostalgia.
French
Etymology
Noun use of feminine form of merveilleux ‘marvellous’.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛʁ.vɛ.jøz/ ~ /mɛʁ.ve.jøz/
Noun
Merveilleuse f (plural Merveilleuses)
- Merveilleuse