affected elegance

  • 1mince — [mins] vt. minced, mincing [ME mincen < OFr mincier < VL * minutiare < L minutus, small: see MINUTE2] 1. to cut up or chop up (meat, etc.) into very small pieces; hash 2. to subdivide minutely 3. to express or do with affected elegance… …

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  • 2mince — mincer, n. /mins/, v., minced, mincing, n. v.t. 1. to cut or chop into very small pieces. 2. to soften, moderate, or weaken (one s words), esp. for the sake of decorum or courtesy. 3. to perform or utter with affected elegance. 4. to subdivide… …

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  • 3PARMIGIANINO (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) Leoni — (1503 1540) Francesco Mazzola, best known from the late sixteenth century by the dimin­utive il Parmigianino after his native Parma, was one of the premier Italian Mannerist painters and draftsmen of the generation of artists to follow Raphael*… …

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  • 4mince — [c]/mɪns / (say mins) verb (minced, mincing) –verb (t) 1. to cut or chop into very small pieces. 2. to subdivide minutely, as land, a subject, etc. 3. to soften or moderate (one s words, etc.) to a milder form. 4. to speak of (matters) in polite… …

  • 5Frippery — Frip per*y, n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See {Fripper}.] 1. Coast off clothes. [Obs.] B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. [1913 Webster] Fond of gauze and French frippery.… …

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  • 6Gongorism — Gon go*rism, n. An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561 1627), among others of his time, was noted. Gongorism, that curious disease of euphuism, that broke out simultaneously in Italy, England …

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  • 7euphuism — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. inflation, grandiloquence, floridness, ornateness of style, delicacy, purism, Gongorism, affected elegance of language, pomposity, bombast, fustian, rhetoric; see also wordiness …

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  • 8froufrou —    (FROO froo) [French] Ruffles, frills, and other furbelows used to decorate women’s clothing. Also, a soft rustling or swishing sound, as that made by a silk dress. Informally, fanciness; affected elegance.    There is no more frou frou… …

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  • 9frou-frou —    (FROO froo) [French] Ruffles, frills, and other furbelows used to decorate women’s clothing. Also, a soft rustling or swishing sound, as that made by a silk dress. Informally, fanciness; affected elegance.    There is no more frou frou… …

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  • 10euphuism — n. 1. Purism, finical style, fastidious delicacy (in the use of language), affected elegance. 2. High flown diction, pompous style, extravagantly ornate diction …

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