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‖ faux pas|fo pɑ|
[Fr. faux false + pas step.]
A false step, fig.; a slip, a trip; an act which compromises one's reputation, esp. a woman's lapse from virtue. Cf. false step in false a. 6.
1676Wycherley Pl. Dealer v. i, Before this faux pas, this trip of mine, the world could not talk of me. 1762Foote Lyar i. Wks. 1799 I. 288 A firework..well designed? Sir J. Superb. Y. Wild. And happily executed? Sir J. Not a single faux pas. 1763Brit. Mag. IV. 350 Terræ Filius..taxes them with any faux-pas, or irregularities, they may have committed. 1823Byron Juan xiv. lx, Foreigners don't know that a faux pas In England ranks quite on a different list. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg., Acc. New Play, His Lordship..Conceiv'd that his daughter had made a faux pas. |