précieuses
- plural of précieuse.
Example Sentences
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She was carefully brought up under Ménage and Rapin, among others, and was one of the most brilliant of the précieuses of the Hôtel Rambouillet.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
We are vexed by pedantries that recall the précieuses of the Hôtel Rambouillet, but we know that she had the soul of the most heroic women in history.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) The Life of George Eliot by Morley, John
In a sort of loud cackling—a voice she sometimes surprisingly adopted—she replied, "Oh, give me a blow-out of tripe and onions!" to the confusion of the précieuses.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund
Madame de Longueville reigned there as well as in all the best circles of Paris; and it must be confessed, with her good qualities she had also some of the defects of the best précieuses.
From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883
When in 1659 his comedy Les précieuses Ridicules took Paris by storm, it did more than make a reformation of the manners of its own.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter
