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‖ menus plaisirs, n. pl.|məny plɛzir|
[Fr., lit. ‘small pleasures’; pocket-money.]
Simple pleasures; small personal expenses or gratifications; fanciful or trifling objects bought with one's pocket-money. Also attrib.
1697Vanbrugh Relapse i. ii. 8, I shall see you stand in damnable need of some Auxiliary Guineas, for you[r] Menu Plaisirs. 1779H. Walpole Let. 14 Jan. (1904) X. 363 My menus plaisirs, a few sprinkled visits of charity from a few friends that remained in town. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park II. v. 114 He will have a very pretty income..and as..he will still live at home, it will be all for his menus plaisirs. 1883M. E. Braddon Gold. Calf II. xi. 293 Whatever honorarium he received for his work was expended upon his menus plaisirs. 1915F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier iii. v. 193 He may have had five hundred pounds a year English, for his menus plaisirs. 1966‘M. Innes’ Change of Heir v. 40 ‘It's in her letter. The bit about..menus frais.’ ‘What's that?’ ‘The same as menus plaisirs. Pocket-money on the scale appropriate to an English gentleman.’ |