pays du tendren.

Brit.

/ˌpeɪ d(j)uː ˈtɒndrə/, U.S.

/ˌpeɪ(i) d(j)u ˈtɑndrə/

Forms: also with capital initials.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French pays du Tendre, pays de Tendre.

Etymology: < French pays du Tendre (1787 or earlier as pays de Tendre) < pays country (see pais n.) + du of the + Tendre, the name of an imaginary country whose topography symbolized aspects of love, probably devised by Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) within her literary circle and described by her in her novel Clélie (1654–60). Compare French Carte du Tendre map of Tendre (1656; translated as ‘Map of Tender’ in the 1656 English translation of de Scudéry's novel), with reference to a map of this country found in the first volume of Clélie.

The domain or subject of love; the experience of falling or being in love.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > matters concerning love

pays du tendre1847

1846 Southern & Western Literary Messenger & Rev. 12 592/1 The map of the ‘Pays du Tendre’ in the latter work [sc. Clélie], was regarded as the ne plus ultra of taste and ingenuity, and in imitation of it, every lover piqued himself, in fashionable courtship, on proceeding regularly from the village of ‘Billets-galants’, to the hamlets of ‘Billets-doux’, and thence to the castle of ‘Petits Soins’.]

1847 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 83 Ménage and others wished to leave the country, and find out some region which might better answer to their conceptions of the Pays du Tendre, and similar pastoral kingdoms, on the other side of the Atlantic.

1910 W. J. Locke Simon the Jester viii. 113 A crock..with one foot in the grave has no business to put the other into the Pays du Tendre.

1938 Times 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.

a1976 A. 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’.]

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pays du tendre
释义	pays du tendren. Brit. /ˌpeɪ d(j)uː ˈtɒndrə/, U.S. /ˌpeɪ(i) d(j)u ˈtɑndrə/ Forms: also with capital initials. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French pays du Tendre, pays de Tendre. Etymology: < French pays du Tendre (1787 or earlier as pays de Tendre) < pays country (see pais n.) + du of the + Tendre, the name of an imaginary country whose topography symbolized aspects of love, probably devised by Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) within her literary circle and described by her in her novel Clélie (1654–60). Compare French Carte du Tendre map of Tendre (1656; translated as ‘Map of Tender’ in the 1656 English translation of de Scudéry's novel), with reference to a map of this country found in the first volume of Clélie. The domain or subject of love; the experience of falling or being in love. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > matters concerning love pays du tendre1847 1846 Southern & Western Literary Messenger & Rev. 12 592/1 The map of the ‘Pays du Tendre’ in the latter work [sc. Clélie], was regarded as the ne plus ultra of taste and ingenuity, and in imitation of it, every lover piqued himself, in fashionable courtship, on proceeding regularly from the village of ‘Billets-galants’, to the hamlets of ‘Billets-doux’, and thence to the castle of ‘Petits Soins’.] 1847 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 83 Ménage and others wished to leave the country, and find out some region which might better answer to their conceptions of the Pays du Tendre, and similar pastoral kingdoms, on the other side of the Atlantic. 1910 W. J. Locke Simon the Jester viii. 113 A crock..with one foot in the grave has no business to put the other into the Pays du Tendre. 1938 Times 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. a1976 A. 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’.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1847
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