minaudière
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minaudière
- /ˌmɪnəʊˈdjɛː/ UK
- /ˌminoʊˈdjɝ/ US
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Borrowed from French minaudière (“coquettish woman; type of bag”), from minauder (“to simper”) + -ière (feminine form of -ier).
noun minaudières
- A woman who is exaggeratedly affected or coquettish. 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.
- A type of formal, decorative women's clutch bag without handles or a strap. 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 w
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noun woman who is exaggeratedly affected or coquettish
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noun type of formal, decorative women's clutch bag
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