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‖ faisandé, a.|fɛzɑ̃de|
[Fr.: pa. pple. of faisander to hang (game) up until it is high.]
Affected, artificial, theatrical; ‘spicy’.
1912C. Mackenzie Carnival xxvii. 306 The more imaginative observer would perceive in the group something unhealthy, something faisandé, an air of too deliberate enjoyment that seemed to imply a perfect knowledge of the limitations of human pleasure. 1930Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Aug. 664/4 There is nothing faisandé about Irène de Bénauge; her mind is..hard, clear, clean, beneficent and unimaginative. 1958Observer 1 June 15/1 He plays the part in a faisandé Cockney accent straight out of Bruce Bairnsfather's Old Bill cartoons. |