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‖ grande tenue|grɑ̃d təny| [Fr.] Full dress; esp. full military costume. Also fig. (See also s.v. en prep.)
1849C. Brontë Shirley II. v. 132 Peter Augustus came up, all in ‘grande tenue’, gloved and scented. 1865‘Ouida’ Strathmore I. x. 171 The ease of the dressing-gown after the restraint of the grande tenue. 1880in Manchester Stage 1880–1900 (1900) 145 Mme. Bernhardt shows the possession of the grande tenue necessary for classic tragedy. 1886Athenæum 24 Apr. 560/2 The little soldier..is almost a caricature; the grande tenue is so ridiculous as to lose the charm which belongs to grotesqueness. 1952C. Day Lewis Grand Manner 23 Lost, too, are the rhetoric of pulpit and parliament, the ceremonious style of letter-writing, the high-flown leading article—all that grande tenue in everyday communication which, though not directly the source of a poetic grand manner, seems so often to be its concomitant. |