minaudière
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French minaudière (“coquettish woman; type of bag”), from minauder (“to simper”)[1] + -ière (feminine form of -ier).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌmɪnəʊˈdjɛː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌminoʊˈdjɝ/
- Hyphenation: min‧au‧dière
Noun
editminaudière (plural minaudières)
- (obsolete) A woman who is exaggeratedly affected or coquettish. [18th–19th c.]
- 1716 December 2, M[ar]y W[ortle]y M[ontagu]e, “Letter XV. To the Countess of ——. Leipzig, Nov. 21, O.S. 1716.”, in Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M——y W———y M———e: [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, in the Strand, published 1763, →OCLC, page 85:
- The Saxon ladies reſemble the Auſtrian no more, than the Chineſe do thoſe of London; they are very genteelly dreſſed after the Engliſh and French modes, and have, generally, pretty faces, but they are the moſt determined Minaudieres in the whole world.
- 1850, [Marianne Talbot?], “Past. Chapter I.”, in Past, Present, and Future. [...] In Two Volumes., volume I, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers' Hall Court, →OCLC, page 10:
- Not the English of the salons of Paris or London, or the English of Lady B———'s drawing-room, or of Lady C———'s coterie, or the language talked at D——— Castle, or the minaudière phrases used in certain societies; but the language of truth: […]
- A type of formal, decorative women's clutch bag without handles or a strap. [from 20th c.]
- 1936, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, volume LXXXIII, London: Ward, Lock and Bowden, →OCLC, page 166, column 1:
- Another gift—the Minaudiere—from Paris, costly because it is wrought from gold, or silver, is a flat case with all those requisites which ensure the feminine peace of mind on all elaborate or special occasions—even to a lighter for those who smoke—and alternately a case for those who do not—fitted with other delightful accessories.
- 1957, Harper’s Bazaar, volume XC, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corp., →OCLC, page 145:
- The collection here includes a minaudiere with a sapphire clasp; a gold basket-bag, much like the ones French school children carry; a cigarette case emblazoned with a single sapphire; a lipstick case capped with another sapphire; a round compact with a sapphire imbedded in the center of the lid.
Related terms
edit- minauderie (“affectation”)
Translations
editwoman who is exaggeratedly affected or coquettish
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type of formal, decorative women's clutch bag
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References
edit- ^ “minaudière”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
edit- minaudière on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
editFrench
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editminaudière
Noun
editminaudière f (plural minaudières)
- minaudière (bag)
Further reading
edit- “minaudière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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