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Genevois
Also 6 Genevoyes. Pl. Genevois.
[a. F. génévois.]
= Genevese n. Also as adj. = Genevese a.
1558–68Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. 62 a, To make Conserve or Confiture of Quinces..whiche also the Genevoyes doe use. 1705Addison Italy 503 The Genevois have been very much refin'd, or, as others will have it, corrupted by the Conversation of the French Protestants. 1765J. Conyers Let. in E. Hamilton Mordaunts (1965) viii. 181 The Genevois being lovers of order and decency. 1845[see Genevese A.]. 1959Times 17 Nov. 16/5 The year in which the earlier Genevois, Jean Etienne Liotard, so detested by Reynolds, died. 1968D. Torr Treason Line 100 The knot of early comers, all of them prominent Genevois bores. |