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[…] and the old lady listened in silence, solemnly, rather coldly, as if she thought such talk a good deal of a galimatias: she belonged to the old-fashioned school and held that a young lady was sufficiently catalogued when it was said that she had a dazzling complexion or the finest eyes in the world.
Unknown, first attested in Michel de Montaigne (1580) and other late 16th-century authors.
There exist many very different hypotheses. The Trésor de la langue française informatisé cites sources that reject most of these hypotheses,[1] including the only one in the dictionary of the Spanish Real Academia, which presents this as if it were not just one of many conjectures: "From Ancient Greekκατά Ματθαῖον(katá Matthaîon, “according to Matthew”), in reference to the way he describes the genealogy at the beginning of his Gospel."[2] The Trésor comments it is commonly believed to be from Late Latinballēmatia(“dance; obscene song”). Coromines and Pascual prefer a derivation from LatinJosephabArimathia(“Joseph of Arimathea”), where Arimathia was thought of as an exotic place or country, then applied to incomprehensible speech,[3] while also stating that the etymology may never be known with confidence, and that it appears the term is an invention of Michel de Montaigne's.