Meaning of salonical | Babel Free

Definitions

Intellectually pretentious.

obsolete

Examples

“If the book was not clever and amusing, we should not refer⟳ to these matters, nor to such epithets as “swanking ” and “salonical.””

“...in between these ghastly sonatas and things the Orders and Decorations could stand⟳ about like⟳ animated waxworks and discuss⟳ the Housing of the People Act and your bromidical hunting-stuff in the usual salonical way, but of course anybody who was too alientated could creep⟳ off into Arcadia, where my dear the commisariat was sausages, vulgar my dear but quite hot, with mash and everything,...”

“Beside all that, I know⟳ your salonical divinity well enough. A woman everlastingly sole-sitting, not on the shore of old romance, but on the brink of hysterical mania.”

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