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‖ précieux, a. (n.)|presjø|
[Fr.]
= precious a. 3. Also as n. Cf. précieuse n. (a.).
1891M. S. van de Velde French Fiction of To-day I. iv. 109 A certain précieux hyper-refinement. 1939Burlington Mag. Mar. p. xviii/1 The lives of other précieux in the stereotyped social and literary intercourse of the Salons. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 63 Arno, Nash, and Thurber are brittle, wistful little précieux beside Capp. 1953[see baroque a. (n.)]. 1964Eng. Stud. XLV. 111 As a précieux poet, the Duke [Orsino] is an accomplished master. 1969Listener 8 May 637/1 There was point in A. C. Benson's defence in 1910 of ‘The May Queen’, that no précieux writer, with a care for his reputation, could have dared to write it... Certainly mid-19th-century literature was not précieux: it took risks. |