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‖ vieux, a.|vjø|
The Fr. word for ‘old’, used in various idiomatic phrases, as vieux jeu |ʒø| [lit. ‘old game’], (something or someone) old-fashioned, hackneyed, outmoded, ‘old hat’; vieux marcheur |marʃœr| [‘old campaigner’, f. Le Vieux Marcheur (1909), a play by Henri Lavedon], an elderly womanizer; also transf.; vieux port |pɔr| [‘old port’], the old harbour area of a modern French seaport; vieux rose |roz| [‘old rose’] = old rose b.
[1888H. James Reverberator II. iii. 57 His father..didn't think it well painted... ‘Poor dear papa, he only understands le vieux jeu!’ 1891M. S. van de Velde French Fiction of Today I. i. 7 Their contempt for what they call vieux jeu.] 1896Mrs. H. Ward Sir G. Tressady ii. xvi. 361 ‘Did you see the new piece at the Français?’ He made a face. ‘Not I! One couldn't be caught by such vieux jeu as that!’ 1900G. Murray Let. 30 July in G. B. Shaw Coll. Lett. (1972) II. 181 Cæsar..did not invent the sarcasm of calling the soldiers ‘Citizens’. It was vieux jeu. 1918R. Fry Let. 14 Oct. (1972) II. 435 We are vieux jeu and incorrigibly nineteenth century. 1955Times 30 June 15/1 Are not dilatory bus drivers and conductors by now somewhat vieux jeu? 1972M. Glenny tr. Solzhenitsyn's August 1914 lxii. 600 To indulge in arguments with hostile, half-baked youth struck him as vieux jeu and boring. 1975Harper's & Queen June 128/3 Henri's parents are very French vieux jeu... My mother-in-law talks about Louis XV as though she knew him.
1920G. B. Shaw Shaw on Theatre (1958) 133 All the young men are cads and cowards, all the old men vieux marcheurs. 1937Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Jan. 39/1 Of all the vieux marcheurs in nature, the cock pheasant has almost the worst reputation. 1940G. Arthur Concerning Winston Spencer Churchill 108 The immortal hero of Khartum—so ran an odious whisper—was addicted to the brandy bottle; Mr. Gladstone, so it was vulgarly suggested, pursued paths associated with a vieux marcheur. 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. ii. 44 Those leprous façades in the vieux port at Marseille. 1957‘P. Quentin’ Suspicious Circumstances xvii. 198 The lights on all the boats moved in the Vieux Port. 1981‘D. Rutherford’ Porcupine Basin i. 11 Be at the Café des Voyageurs in the vieux port... Take a table on the terrasse.
1890Girl's Own Paper 11 Oct. 31/2, I should get your village dressmaker..to make you a vieux rose zephyr dress. 1916Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 1 July 12/3 The colors include white..old rose, gold..vieux rose, mid-brown, [etc.]. 1941E. Bowen Look at Roses 55 Light blared on the vieux rose curtains. |