merveilleuse
/mɜːveɪˈjɜːz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fashionable young Frenchwoman of the late 18th-century, characterized by extravagant dress sense and anti-revolutionary ideas.
noun
Example Sentences
- "There were the mad fashions sported by the extraordinarily (by turns over- and under-) dressed Incroyables and Merveilleuses, the guzzling of champagne, and the ingestion of bountiful meals in smart restaurants (a recent invention)."
- "You are the reason I arrived indecently late at Madame de Volanges's and had all the old ladies thinking I was a Merveilleuse."
- "The female equivalents were called Merveilleuses and adopted Greek dress and espoused a neo-classical nostalgia."
- "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’."
- "The Merveilleuses survived the Incroyables by a couple of years."
Etymology
Borrowed from French Merveilleuse.