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‖ princesse lointaine|præ̃sɛs lwæ̃tɛn|
[Fr., lit. ‘distant princess’, title of a play by E. Rostand (1868–1918), based on a theme of the poetry of the 12th-cent. troubadour Jaufré Rudel.]
An ideal but unattainable woman. Also as attrib. phr., aloof, unapproachable.
1921W. J. Locke Mountebank viii. 96 The woman who could satisfy all his romantic imaginings was the Princesse Lointaine. 1934A. Thirkell Wild Strawberries xi. 238 Pierre had sat with Agnes, feeling like Geoffroy Rudel with the Princesse Lointaine. 1940A. Christie Sad Cypress i. i. 17 That little air of yours—aloof—untouchable—la Princesse Lointaine. 1949R. Harvey Curtain Time 127 Papa was the romantic and the mystic, following the gleam of the fiercer bass, the more golden wall-eyed pike, and sailing in search of a muskelunge, as if for some princesse lointaine. 1957L. Durrell Bitter Lemons 97, I had seen her..driving about the hills with the same princesse lointaine expression. 1962I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose xxxiii. 314 He had loved Lindsay as the enticing but untouchable princesse lointaine. 1969M. Drabble Waterfall 42 She lay there, the unachievable princesse lointaine. 1976P. Quennell Marble Foot iv. 162 Constant's princesse lointaine was the Chinese film-actress Anna May Wong. |