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‖ manqué, a.|mɑ̃ke|
Fem. manquée.
[Fr., pa. pple. of manquer to miss, be lacking.]
After its noun: that might have been but is not, that has missed being. Also occas. pred.
1778F. Burney Diary Aug. (1904) I. i. 54 Dr. Johnson's favourite is Mr. Smith. He declares the fine gentleman manqué was never better drawn. 1895G. B. Shaw in W. Archer Theatr. ‘World’ 1894 p. xxvi, A villain if you like..a kicked, cuffed, duped pantaloon by all means; but a hero manqué, never. 1898C. R. Ashbee Cellini's Treatises on Goldsmithing & Sculpture p. xi, There is about his figures always something manqué. 1913tr. Gleizes & Metzinger's Cubism i. 15 People have tried to present Cézanne as a sort of genius manqué. 1927Sat. Rev. 17 Sept. 370/2 ‘The History of Anthony Waring’ is a poem manqué. 1942W. Stevens Let. 29 July (1967) 4/4 That such a person [sc. a poet] is to be visualized as..an eccentric or a person somehow manqué is nonsense. 1948F. R. Leavis Great Tradition ii. 61 Casaubon..is an intellectual manqué. 1960V. Brittain Women at Oxf. v. 86 Published memories of Miss Maitland..suggest that she was a hospital matron manquée. 1962Listener 12 July 73/2 A clever, unhappy young writer manqué. 1974Listener 26 Sept. 408/3 Was Lady O a courtesan manquée?
b. In other uses: defective, spoilt, missing, lacking, etc.
1773H. Walpole Let. 27 Mar. (1904) VIII. 262 Dr. Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer...The author's wit is as much manqué as the lady's. 1793F. Burney Let. 3 May (1972) II. 98 Our party was manqué in every way;—I came early, but with a head ache; your melancholy Note did not relieve it. 1841Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. June 724/1, I never yet had a good dinner in my life at Véfour's; something is always manqué at the place. 1876C. M. Yonge Womankind i. 6 The single woman ceases to be manquée, and enjoys honour and happiness. 1881H. James Notebks. (1947) 31 He used to talk to me about Spain, about the East..till it seemed to me that life would be manquée altogether if one shouldn't have some of that knowledge. 1894R. Fry Let. 27 Mar. (1972) I. 158 Millais..is the most gifted man we ever had, but somehow he's manqué, never done what he might have done. 1940W. Stevens Let. 9 Aug. (1967) 362 Thus, one's chords remain manqué; still there they are. |