| 释义 |
‖ gaieté de cœur|gete də kœr|
[Fr.]
Light-heartedness; playfulness.
1728Vanbrugh & Cibber Prov. Husb. i. i. 4 Take a frolicksome Supper at an India House—perhaps, in her Gayeté de Cœur toast a pretty Fellow. 1747H. Walpole Let. 24 Nov. (1903) ii. 295, I did not mention returning to Florence out of gaieté de cœur. 1886C. M. Yonge Chantry House I. xiii. 119 Emily..in youthful gaieté de cœur had got a little tired of her. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 4 July 558/2 The latest ebullition of his [sc. the Regent's] gaieté de coeur is to make the French Ambassador's wife drunk at table. |