petit maître
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petit maître
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From French petit-maître.
noun petits maîtres
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A fop or dandy.
The unfortunate petit maitre, driven to the extremity of his condescension, acknowledged it to be a masterly refinement […].
Similar: macaroni, popinjay, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy, dike, dood
- A lesser master of something, especially of some artistic skill; a minor talent. Monstrous critical overkill of an even more up-market kind has transformed the Argentinian petit maître, Borges, into one of the Great Writers of our Time and his most recent collection, The Book of Sand […] shows signs that he is content humbly to acquiesce in this opinion.
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| Русский | петиметр petimetr |
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