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ficelle|fiːˈsɛl|
[a. F. ficelle pack-thread.]
1. In comb., as ficelle colour, the colour of pack-thread; ficelle-lace, string-coloured lace. Also ficelle-coloured adj.
1882Queen 22 July 94/1 No dress looked prettier than a thin canvas of dark ficelle colour. 1882World 21 June 18/1 A white muslin trimmed with wide flouncings of ficelle lace. 1900Westm. Gaz. 5 Feb. 2/1 Hat of ficelle-coloured straw. 1927Observer 12 June 11/4 Ficelle coloured lace.
2. A trick, artifice, (stage) device.
1890E. Dowson Let. 8 June (1967) 152 There is more psychological motive in it and less of ‘ficelle’ which Bouthors objected to so in the ‘Diary’. 1894W. Archer Theatr. ‘World’ 1893 xviii. 112, I..did not quite..believe in it, taking it rather as a mere ficelle. a1916H. James Art of Novel (1934) 322 Half the dramatist's art, as we well know, is in the use of ficelles. Ibid. 323 The ‘ficelle’ character of the subordinate party is..artfully dissimulated. 1920G. Murray in H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. iii. xvii. 107/1 True, raids on women were a real cause of war, but they were also a very favourite ficelle of fiction. 1968Listener 26 Sept. 412/3 No Pucelle, Candy's a ficelle; and..her fate is to be briefly grabbed by a series of stereo⁓types. |