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milor(d
(mɪˈlɔːd, ‖ milɔr)
[a. F. milord (in 16th c. milour), a. Eng. my lord (see lord n. 15). Cf. It. milordo; also the following Scottish example:
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 14 Thair ar Knichtes, Barrounis and mony vthiris Nobilis, quhome we cal milordis.]
(A French designation for an English lord; often applied to any wealthy Englishman); spec. an Englishman travelling in Europe in aristocratic style. Hence miˈlordliness, miˈlordism.
[1598J. Chamberlain Let. 17 Sept. (1939) I. 45 Yet me thincks still I am out of my element when I am among Lords, and I am of Rabelais minde that they looke big comme un millord d'Angleterre.] 1758M. W. Montagu Let. May (1967) III. 149 He brags of having done his duty in waiting on the two Milordi. 1822L. Simond Trav. Switzerland I. 357 Accustomed to the Milords Anglais of former times. 1824Byron Juan xvi. xxxviii, ‘Jest!’ quoth Milor. 1863Sala Qualk the Circumnav. 70 An eccentric child of Albion, a milord, afflicted with the ‘spleen’. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. liv, The milord, owner of the handsome yacht. 1920A. Huxley Leda 44 They behaved like English aristocrats in a French novel... I tried to imitate their milordliness. 1931R. Church High Summer i. i. 8 A tall young man, very shy and nervous, very English, but trying to hide these insular virtues behind the assumption of lofty milordism. 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. viii. 185 It's not as though he lived like a Milord. 1954[see Edwardian n. 3]. 1961A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo i. 9 The Zoo authorities had been very indulgent to a number of ‘milord’ whims that were perhaps more in keeping with an aesthetic undergraduate. 1969Listener 6 Feb. 180/3 The great man scampered about, huffing and puffing, playing the magnificent milord. |