bas bleu

How to use bas bleu in a sentence

• He is himself a plain practical man, who has no sympathy with the bas bleu movement.

  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 | The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

• She always reminds me of the pretty bas bleu immortalized by the 'Spectator'—or is it the 'Tattler'?

  Jessamine | Marion Harland

• Au reste, she has nothing of the bas bleu about her, and is very quiet and agreeable.

  The Letters of Charles Dickens | Charles Dickens

• The epithet bas bleu (blue stocking) would soon bring them back to the common crowd—an ignorant and frivolous feminine mass.

  The Human Race | Louis Figuier

• The author smacks not of the bas bleu; she is a simple woman in the truest sense of the word, and a regal grande dame as well.

  The Mystery of the Lost Dauphin | Emilia Pardo Bazn