Citations:belle joueuse

English citations of belle joueuse

Note: The term belle joueuse is well-attested in French. Here are citations towards justifying an English sense.

• 1878 November 30, “Angélique's Martingale”, in All The Year Round, number 522, page 520:

  Either the child is frightened by her three consecutive losses, and hesitates, or else the combination for which she is waiting has not yet arisen. Ninety-nine people in the hundred would surmise the former. I, who know Angélique better, and know if ever beau joueur—or rather, I suppose, belle joueuse—was born, it is that small slight child at my side, think otherwise.