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refained, a.|rɪˈfeɪnd|
Also refaned, refayned, refeened |-ˈfiːnd|.
Repr. an affected pronunc. of refined ppl. a. (with reference to sense 2). Freq. joc. or derogatory.
1930A. Huxley Brief Candles 25 Altogether too much the lady—refained; you know the type. A Governess;..the genteel, Jane Eyre, daughter-of-clergyman kind. 1932New Statesman 9 Jan. 36/2 Few audiences could take seriously a performance of Hamlet in which..Horatio [spoke] in what is known as the ‘refaned’ accent. 1939R. Campbell Flowering Rifle ii. 46 The most ‘refayned’ of all that breed. 1940W. de la Mare Pleasures & Speculations 137 His [sc. the advertiser's] tone is usually genteel and refaned. 1940H. G. Wells New World Order 53 A friendly adviser..protests against ‘the wombs of associated labour’... My adviser produces..‘the lap of social labour’, which is more refained but pure nonsense. 1940John o' London's 3 May 149/3 Edinburgh being very ‘refained’, the word [sc. keelie] is seldom used in the more polite society. 1941V. Woolf Between Acts 122 The old lady..looked too refined. ‘Refeened’—Mrs. Manresa qualified the word to her own advantage... She could span the old lady's ‘refeenment’. 1961Radio Times 27 Apr. 63/4 The Kilt Is My Delight is indeed a delightful programme, but..may I suggest that it sometimes takes on a less ‘refaned’ air? Always these immaculately dressed ladies and gentlemen prance around in some ‘stately home’. 1962N. Marsh Hand in Glove i. 28 Nicola..wondered if Mr. Period would find the phrase ‘refeened,’ a word he often used with humorous intent. 1962Punch 14 Feb. 297/3 An appalling gold-digger with a refained accent. 1969M. O'Brine Mills xi. 43 The Sangsters were much too ‘refained’ to argue with someone they were meeting for the first time. 1972A. MacVicar Golden Venus Affair v. 53 Her accent was ‘refained’, but it betrayed a Glasgow East End origin. 1976Listener 25 Mar. 386/4 The blowzy, mini-skirted divorcee with a loutish son and an impossibly ‘refeened’ mother.
Hence reˈfainment, reˈfeenment (with reference to refinement 2).
1933H. Matheson Broadcasting iii. 63 Universal education may mean a universal hybrid speech..often overlaid with a veneer of what can only be called ‘refainment’. 1941[see above]. 1960J. Mitford Hons & Rebels i. 17 Nancy [Mitford], even in those early days preoccupied with U and Non-U usage, made up a poem illustrative of the main ‘refainments’ of Miss Broadmoor's speech. |