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‖ muscadin|myskadæ̃| [Fr.: a transferred use of muscadin, musk-comfit: see muscadine2.] A Parisian term for: A dandy, exquisite. Hence applied in contempt to the members of a moderate party in the French Revolution (about 1794–6), composed chiefly of young men of the upper middle class.
1794C. Pigott Female Jockey Club 98 It is a general complaint amongst our elegant muscadins and muscadines who frequent her Ladyship's assemblies. 1822Byron Juan viii. cxxiv, Cockneys of London! Muscadins of Paris! 1827Scott Napoleon III. 70 note, Muscadins, fops—a phrase applied to the better class of sans culottes. 1844Disraeli Coningsby iv. xv, Little do your ‘muscadins’ of Paris, and your dandies of London,..suspect [etc.]. attrib.1795Burke Regic. Peace iv. (1892) 293 The Committee for Foreign Affairs..stunk so abominably, that no Muscadin Ambassador..could come within ten yards of them. |