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‖ souffrante, a.|sufrɑ̃t|
[Fr., fem. sing. pres. pple. of souffrir to suffer.]
Of women: delicate, indisposed or ill; prone to anxiety or depression.
1827E. Grosvenor in G. Huxley Lady Elizabeth & Grosvenors (1965) vii. 141 She is a very interesting person, very handsome, but pale and ‘souffrante’. 1877Geo. Eliot Let. 10 July (1956) VI. 392, I have been souffrante, but am content to bear my share of such trouble. 1938A. Thirkell Let. in M. Strickland A. Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist (1977) vii. 120, I have been so souffrante this summer with perpetual headaches. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Jan. 94/4 A tearful, tortured female, forever souffrante, forever worried, forever hoarding and cherishing her sufferings. |