minauderie

From French minauderie.

minauderie (countable and uncountable, plural minauderies)

1. affectation; an affected remark or behaviour
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 48, in The History of Pendennis. , volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     “What a nice little artless creature that was,” Mr. Pen thought at the very instant of waking after the Vauxhall affair; “what a pretty natural manner she has; how much pleasanter than the minauderies of the young ladies in the ballrooms” […]

• minaudière

• IPA^(key): /mi.no.dʁi/

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• Rhymes: -i
• Homophone: minauderies

minauderie f (plural minauderies)

1. affectation
   • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:

     Pour maître Nicolas, barbier du même village, il assurait que nul n’approchait du chevalier de Phébus, et que si quelqu’un pouvait lui être comparé, c’était le seul don Galaor, frère d’Amadis de Gaule; car celui-là était propre à tout, sans minauderie, sans grimaces, non point un pleurnicheur comme son frère, et pour le courage, ne lui cédant pas d’un pouce.

     As for master Nicolas, barber of the village, he assure that none could approach the knight Phoebus, and that if someone could be compared to him, it was the only don Galaor, brother of Amadis of Gaul; for he was equal to any occasion, without affectation, without grimaces, not a sniveller like his brother, and as for courage, did not yield to him an inch.

• “minauderie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.