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‖ Pays du Tendre|pei dy tɑ̃dr|
Also with lower-case initials.
[ad. Fr. pays de Tendre, with ref. to Tendre, an imaginary country whose topography symbolized aspects of love, devised by Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) in her novel Clélie (1654–60).]
Matters concerning love; the ‘region’ of the affections.
1910W. J. Locke Simon viii. 113 A crock..with one foot in the grave has no business to put the other into the Pays du Tendre. 1913― Stella Maris xv. 200 Herold..adventured with her into the Land of Tenderness—the Pays du Tendre of the old French romanticists. 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Jan. 43/3 The heroine's first excursion into the pays du tendre ends abruptly with the young man's betrothal to another girl. 1939Ibid. 1 July 387/2 Mastery of this familiar type in the pays du tendre..is a handsome equipment for story-telling. a1976A. Christie Autobiogr. (1977) iv. i. 168 The art of flirtation..was an approximation, I think, to what the old troubadours called ‘le pays du tendre’. |