Meaning of Merveilleuse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fashionable young Frenchwoman of the late 18th-century, characterized by extravagant dress sense and anti-revolutionary ideas.
   historical
2. A female merveilleux.
   historical

Examples

“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.”

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