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Parisian, n. and a.|pərɪˈzɪən, -ˈrɪʒ(ɪ)ən|
Also 6 -ien.
[a. F. parisien, med.L. parīsiān-us, f. Parīsiī Paris: see -an.]
A. n.
a. A native or inhabitant of Paris.
1530Palsgr. 34 In this worke I moost folowe the Parisyens. 1683Apol. Prot. France iv. 48 During that rage the Parisians were then stirred up to. 1779J. Adams in Fam. Lett. (1876) 355, I admire the Parisians prodigiously. 1831Sir J. Sinclair Corr. II. 95 The Parisians, as usual, had a number of novelties.
b. The French spoken in or associated with Paris.
1841M. Edgeworth Let. 23 Mar. (1971) 587 Educated at Paris and all proper—‘hors les p-s and b-s and c-s’ which could not pass surely..for true Parisian. 1846R. Ford Gatherings from Spain xi. 119 Their silly grandees murder the glorious Castilian tongue, by substituting what they fancy is pure Parisian. 1909W. J. Locke Septimus xii. 177 Peculiar vocables which she had learnt at school, and which Hégisippe declared to be the purest Parisian he had ever heard an Englishwoman use. 1932Kipling Limits & Renewals 322 His speech—to suit his hearers—ran From pure Parisian to gross peasant. 1969[see Grenadian a. and n.]. 1976‘Trevanian’ Main (1977) iii. 59 Guttmann speaks up in his precise European French, the kind Canadians call ‘Parisian’, but which is really modelled on the French of Tours.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Paris; resembling Paris or that of Paris. Special collocations: Parisian cloth (see quot.); Parisian French = n. b. above; Parisian ivory, an early type of celluloid; Parisian pattern (see quot.); Parisian stitch (see quot.).
1614in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) I. 346 For fear a Sicilian vespers, or Parisian matins, did ensue. 1688South Serm. I. 477 Perhaps the Cut-Throat may rather take his Copy from the Parisian Massacre. 1828Lights & Shades II. 72 No gown sat well that was not of Parisian make. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 26 Oct. 9/1 (Advt.), A new display of Parisian ivory. 1934M. Thomas Dict. Embroidery Stitches 157 Parisian stitch.., a Canvas Stitch, consisting of upright stitches worked alternately over one and three horizontal threads of the canvas. 1960C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 268/1 Parisian Cloth, 19th c., an English textile of cotton warp and worsted weft. 1962P. O'Brian tr. Erlanger's St. Bartholomew's Night iv. 162 At four o'clock in the morning the tocsin in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois had begun ringing for what history was to call the Parisian matins. 1964W. L. Goodman Hist. Woodworking Tools 34 This tool [sc. twybill] is 2ft. 6in. long, has no handle, and is described as the ‘Parisian pattern’. 1974E. Ambler Dr. Frigo i. 20 He speaks Parisian French. 1976E. Berckman Be All & End All v. 59 Cecil spoke Parisian French and he himself hated the English.
Hence Paˈrisianism, Parisian character, habit, or practice; Paˈrisianize v. trans., to make or render Parisian (whence Paˌrisianiˈzation), also refl.; hence also Paˈrisianized ppl. a.; Paˈrisianly adv., in a Parisian fashion or manner.
1892Athenæum 25 June 821/3 All his good points—his gaiety, his shrewdness,..his Parisianism—appear excellently. 1851Fraser's Mag. XLIII. 415 He has become irreparably Parisianized. Ibid., A considerable amount of Parisianization. 1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career I. x. 139 Where folly had danced Parisianly of old. 1897[see boulevarded a.]. 1913E. Wharton Custom of Country xii. 156 Mrs. Harvey Shallum, a showy Parisianized figure. 1916W. J. Locke Wonderful Year xv. 220 The last thing a solid and virtuous citizen of Central France desires to do in Paris is to Parisianize himself. 1962Punch 28 Nov. 783/1 This fashion should not be a Parisianised version from Bond Street. |