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English
Etymology
From French merveilleuse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛɹ.veɪˈjəz/, /-ˈjuz/
Noun
merveilleuse (plural merveilleuses)
- (historical) A female merveilleux.
1892 October 19, The Daily News, page 5/1: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’.
1898, Octave Uzanne, chapter I, in Mary Loyd, transl., Fashion in Paris: The Various Phases of Feminine Taste and Æsthetics from 1797 to 1897, page 19:The Merveilleuses survived the Incroyables by a couple of years.
Translations
Frenchwoman during the Directory who affected ancient Greek classical costume
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛʁ.vɛ.jøz/ ~ /mɛʁ.ve.jøz/
Adjective
merveilleuse
- feminine singular of merveilleux