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‖ objet|ɔbʒɛ|
[Fr., = object.]
1. An object which is displayed as an ornament.
1857A. Mathews Tea-Table Talk I. 98 Every part of it [sc. the house] abounded in pretty things—objets, as they are sometimes called, which her visitors were strictly forbidden to touch. 1960Good Housekeeping Feb. 60/2 For some people a collection is worthwhile only if the pieces are rare... For others, the pleasure lies, quite simply, in possessing a number of more ordinary objets which intrigue, amuse or otherwise delight the owner. 1970V. C. Clinton-Baddeley No Case for Police vii. 136 All those lamentable objets on the window-sills. 1973Listener 6 Sept. 319/3 The sights and textures of bourgeois existence: the plush, the antimacassars, the objets in the home and in the shops.
2. One who is the object of (someone's) attentions or affection. Cf. object n. 4. rare.
1847Thackeray Van. Fair (1848) xv. 132 Find out who is the objet, Briggs. I'll set him up in a shop. 1877L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine (1878) II. xviii. 33 He..protested,..against being ‘swindled’ into further association with the objet aimé for the present.
3. objet d'art |ɔbʒɛ dar|, a small artistic object; a curio; a precious and finely worked ornament. Also transf. Also objet d'art et de vertu (see sense 6 below and virtu, vertu 1 c). Cf. object of art (and virtu) (object n. 3 c).
1865‘Ouida’ Strathmore II. xx. 236 Cachemires, sables, flowers, objets d'art, were scattered over it. 1866Mrs. Gaskell Wives & Dau. II. x. 98 The various little tables, loaded with ‘objets d'art’ (as Mrs. Gibson delighted to call them) with which the drawing room was crowded. 1872C. Schreiber Jrnl. 27 Mar. (1911) I. 145 We were surprised..to find a house containing 3 rooms entirely hung with pictures, in which were a few unimportant objets d'art. 1883E. W. Hamilton Diary 29 Jan. (1972) II. 395 Mentmore..certainly is a gorgeous place, full of objets d'art and choice articles of furniture. 1913W. Lawrence Let. 14 Oct. in T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 159 Great collectors of objets d'art. 1921M. Corelli Secret Power xxii. 267 The ceremony..has become a mere show of dressed-up manikins and womenkins, many of the latter being mere objets d'art,—stands for the display of millinery. 1931N. & Q. 5 Sept. 175/1, I should be much obliged for any notes of the mention of platinum—as objet d'art, precious possession, gift, jewel or the like—in literature. 1939O. Lancaster Homes Sweet Homes 38 Objets d'art et de vertu had been collected by rich men since the end of the seventeenth century. 1940N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys (1941) v. 72 The jewellery and objets-d'art idea seemed a capital one. 1955Times 27 May 14/3, I have seen him start from his chair and literally explode from the room, scattering priceless objets d'art to right and left. 1965A. Nicol Truly Married Woman 17 He turned over the pages with the hopeless air of a connoisseur examining an objet d'art. 1973G. Sims Hunters Point xiii. 119 Buchanan knew nothing of fine wines or objets d'art but he considered himself a connoissseur of loneliness. 1974K. Clark Another Part of Wood vi. 257 At Portland Place they [sc. the author's children] were hidden away at the top of the house and brought down to be exhibited as objets d'art to our friends.
4. objet de luxe (see de luxe adj. phr.), an especially fine or sumptuous article of value, a luxury article.
1881C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork iii. 149 This was chiefly for the chambers of royal palaces—screens, then as now, being objets de luxe in the literal sense. 1934Burlington Mag. Sept. 125/2 Cabinets and boxes covered with tortoise-shell veneer..are among the many ‘objets de luxe’ brought from India to Europe and now found in old collections. 1941[see bætyl]. 1956K. Clark Nude i. 8 A few objets de luxe, like the Veroli Casket. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Mar. 290/2 To trace the changing fortunes of Ruritanian royalty, through the dispersal of their Fabergé objets de luxe.
5. objet trouvé (lit. ‘found object’, pl. objets trouvés), an object found or picked up at random and presented as a rarity or a work of art. Also transf. and fig.
1937Auden & MacNeice Lett. from Iceland xvii. 243 The Surrealists shall have J. A. Smith as an Objet Trouvé in disguise. 1940Graves & Hodge Long Week-End xx. 352 The similarity between ‘objets trouvés’..and the neo-Victorian knick-knack collecting habit. 1956M. Laski in Pick of Today's Short Stories VII. 121 Collages were countered by montages, objets trouvés by objets faits. 1959P. & L. Murray Dict. Art & Artists 112 Found object (objet trouvé), in Surrealist theory an object of any kind, such as a shell found on a walk, can be a work of art; and such ‘Found Objects’ have been exhibited. 1962Listener 6 Sept. 350/2 He was far ahead of his time. In the eighteen-nineties he was working on objets trouvés, in his case coals from his fire. 1967L. Deighton Expensive Place v. 34 An objet trouvé is a piece of driftwood or a fine stone—it's something in which an artist has found and seen otherwise unnoticed beauty. 1970New Yorker 17 Oct. 159/2 Mr. Berio allows that he has treated the Mahler movement as an objet trouvé. 1973Guardian 17 Oct. 7/8 The City's food... Among objets trouvés were a screw in a cheese and tomato roll, a brass rivet in a Chelsea bun. 1974Sunday Times 14 July 28/2 He [sc. Lord Goodman] plonked himself down, a volunteer objet-trouvé, and was given a studiously informal treatment.
6. objet de vertu (or virtu), a spurious transl. into French of object of virtu (see virtu, vertu 1 c), after objet d'art above. (The required meaning of vertu does not exist in French.) Also in phr. objet d'art et de vertu.
1939[see sense 3 above]. 1947M. McCarthy in Partisan Rev. XIV. 63 Lady Windermere's fan becomes an objet de virtu as powerful as Desdemona's handkerchief. 1954‘N. Blake’ Whisper in Gloom ii. x. 139 Mr. Borch was in search of information rather than objets de vertu. 1961Connoisseur Dec. p. xlvi, Objets de Vertu and fine Works of Art. 1974Times 7 Dec. 14/7 His main interests are objets de vertu and antique weapons. |