 | 1854 - 630 pàgines
...unadulterated, unmitigated slang. The slang of the fashionable world is mostly imported from France ; an unmeaning gibberish of Gallicisms runs through...idiomatic vocabulary. If you were to tell a well-bred Frenchma'u that such and such an aristocratic marriage was on the tapis, he would stare with astonishment,... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1874 - 448 pàgines
...carefully recorded in its pages. •Concerning the Slang of the fashionable world, it has been remarked that it is mostly imported from France ; and that...it altogether from their idiomatic vocabulary. If 3^011 were to tell a well-bred Frenchman that such and such an aristocratic marriage was on the tapis,... | |
 | William Ballantyne Hodgson - 1882 - 268 pàgines
...fashionable parties in the fashionable newspapers. Yet, ludicrously enough, immediately [as soon asj the fashionable magnates of England seize on any French...astonishment, and look down on the carpet in the startled endeavor to find a marriage in so unusual a place. If you were to talk to him of the beau monde, he... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1883 - 250 pàgines
...embarrassing state of things." Wb. IMMATERIAL (for worthless). y 89. Immediately (for as soon as). "Yet, ludicrously enough, immediately the fashionable...repudiate it altogether from their idiomatic vocabulary." — Hotlen. c 65, tt 493. Immersed (for amerced). ' Immersed in a heavy fine." i 39. IMMINENT (for... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1883 - 236 pàgines
...embarrassing state of things." Wb. IMMATERIAL (for worthless), y 39. Immediately (for at soon tit) •' Yet, ludicrously enough, immediately the fashionable...positively repudiate it altogether from their idiomatic vocabulary."—Holten. c 65, tt 493. Immersed (for amerced). "Immersed in a heavy fine." i 39. IMMINENT... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1883 - 242 pàgines
...y 39. Immediately (for as soon as). "Yet, ludicrously enough, immediately the fashionable niagnates of England seize on any French idiom, the French themselves...repudiate it altogether from their idiomatic vocabulary." — Hotten. c 65, tt 493. Immersed (for amerced). ' Immersed in a heavy fine." i 39. IMMINENT (for... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1883 - 240 pàgines
...(for as soon as) "Yet, ludicrously enough, immediately the fashionable magnates of England seize ou any French idiom, the French themselves not only universally...repudiate it altogether from their idiomatic vocabulary." — Holten. c 65, tt 493. Immersed (for amerced). ' Immerted in a heavy fine." i 39. IMMINENT (for... | |
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France ; an unmeaning gibberish of Gallicisms runs through English fashionable conversation, and fashionable novels, and accounts of fashionable parties in the fashionable newspapers. Yet, ludicrously enough, immediately the fashionable magnates of England... 