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▪ I. ‖ maison|mɛzɔ̃|
Also 6 maisoun.
[a. F. maison.]
1. A house. Now usu. in the sense of a business (esp. a fashion) house or firm.
The early (16th–17th c.) use of the word was Sc.
1570Satir. Poems Reform. x. 412 With all foull vice thou hes defylde yair Maisoun. a1625J. Sempill Picktooth for Pope in Harp Renfrew. Ser. ii. (1873) 19, I can but..seek my meat through many an unknown Maison. 1922Joyce Ulysses 165 He went on by la Maison Claire. 1932‘E. M. Delafield’ Thank Heaven Fasting i. ii. 32 The tall, yellow-headed assistant from the Maison Leroy in Sloane Street..twisted the hot irons in and out of her hair. 1935A. Christie Death in Clouds xiii. 138 I'll easily get what I want from Henri's or the Maison Richet. 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 94 Maison... A mode of address used by many fashionable hairdressers of the Victorian and Edwardian periods... The intention was to convey to the public that the firm had a knowledge of French hair styles... An example was Maison Stephens et Cie., Queen's Road, Clifton. 1968Listener 29 Aug. 280/2 The spécialité of this particular maison is the primal bourgeois myth, the Dick Whittington legend brought up to date. 1970‘J. & E. Bonett’ Sound of Murder ix. 112 In gold letters on a heart-shaped label were the words ‘Maison Petronelle—Nail Lacquer’. 1971D. Ayerst Guardian xxiii. 330 Dresses by ‘Maison N'Importe’ and all the rest of it.
2. Comb. maison close [lit. ‘closed house’], a brothel; maison de couture, a fashion house; maison de passe [lit. ‘house of passage’], a brothel (see quot. 1967); maison de santé [lit. ‘house of health’], a nursing home; also, euphem., a home for the mentally sick; maison tolérée [lit. ‘tolerated house’], a licensed brothel.
1939E. Ambler Mask of Dimitrios vii. 126 Your maison close must have proved disappointing. The inevitable Armenian girls, of course. 1950Landfall IV. 124 The squalid harlot in the maison close. 1961Guardian 10 Feb. 9/4 Toulouse-Lautrec..became..an inhabitant of the Maisons Closes where the girls regarded him as an amiable..mascot.
1927E. Hemingway in Scribner's Mag. Apr. 359/2 The American lady had bought her own clothes for twenty years now from the same maison de couturier [sic] in the Rue Saint Honoré. 1933A. Christie Lord Edgware Dies xii. 107 The name of Lao Tse would suggest to her a prize Pekingese dog, the name of Molière a maison de couture. 1964A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping xxi. 247 Paul Poiret..described..a visit paid to his maison de couture by Margot Asquith. 1970S. J. Perelman Baby, it's Cold Inside 53 The rigors of squiring her through a score of maisons de couture, jewelers', and millinery shops were..unimaginable.
1960B. Marshall Divided Lady xxix. 99 The hotel we drew up at eventually reminded me of a maison-de-passe I used to know in Barcelona. 1967L. Deighton Expensive Place to Die x. 71 It's not a brothel... It's a maison de passe. It's a house that people go to when they already have a girl with them.
1841Poe Murders in Rue Morgue in Tales (1845) 142 Some raving maniac escaped from a neighbouring Maison de Santé. 1859Times 5 Feb. 5/6 (Advt.), Maison de Santé, or Residence for Invalids. 1910W. J. Locke Simon xxiv. 337 He seemed to be happy enough at the maison de santé. 1940Joyce Let. 3 Nov. (1966) III. 496, I had arranged for the reception at a Swiss maison de santé. 1942‘A. Bridge’ Frontier Passage vii. 125 We don't want him shut up in a maison de santé for spy mania.
1893G. B. Shaw Let. 12 Dec. (1965) 412 A woman of bad character, proprietress of two maisons tolérées in Brussels. 1927Observer 11 Dec. 20/2 Agreement on that point [sc. that abolition of the licensed houses of prostitution decreases the white slave traffic] greatly strengthens the hands of the League in working for the abolition of the maison tolérée. 1970K. Chesney Victorian Underworld x. 343 Conditioned by her existence in a maison tolérée,..she was very much in the hands of the bawd to whom she was consigned.
▪ II. maison
obs. form of mason. |