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visite|vɪˈziːt|
[a. F. visite visit n.]
1. A light cape or short sleeveless cloak worn by ladies.
c1847J. S. Coyne How to settle Accounts with your Laundress 4 I'll come in my blue visite and my native innocence. 1852Smedley L. Arundel xxxvi. 303 A visite, of light blue glacé silk. 1864Daily Tel. 1 July, She wore a white dress with a black silk visite, and a white bonnet. 1885Pall Mall G. 11 May 4/2 We have a ‘visite’ without arms or any proper accommodation for those useful appendages.
2. Short for carte-de-visite, in attrib. use.
1891Anthony's Photogr. Bull. IV. 302 A stereoscope camera which can be used to make..24 visite negatives.
‖3. visite de digestion, a formal call paid in return for hospitality received.
1908J. Churchill Reminisc. (1973) iii. 44 The writing of ceremonious notes, the leaving of cards, not to speak of visites de digestion, which even young men were supposed to pay, took up most afternoons. 1971L. P. Hartley Mrs Carteret Receives 17, I thought it only civil to ask Madame Carteret if we could pay her a farewell visit, not a visite de digestion, but just an acknowledgment of her kindness. |