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There is a little element here of Louis XIV's French court and les precieuses --the affected ladies.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he published his piece, Moliere, anxious not to give umbrage to a powerful clique, took care to say in his preface that he was not attacking real precieuses, but only the bad imitations.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Black, Robert

She receives them all there to-day--the precieuses, the poets; they read a discourse on the Tender Passion.

From Cyrano De Bergerac by Guillemard, Mary F.

The precieuses, with their sentimental theories and naive reserves, have had their day.

From The Women of the French Salons by Mason, Amelia Ruth Gere

Mais nous ne pouvons rien establir de certain touchant la presence des Anges dans les pierres precieuses.

From Prince Zaleski by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)