单词 | flâneuse |
释义 | flâneusen. A woman who saunters around observing life and society; a leisurely woman about town. Cf. flâneur n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > female fine lady1577 girl about ( the) towna1701 élégante1797 lionne1846 flâneuse1879 mondaine1888 mundane1897 nymph1898 Sloane Ranger1975 bright young thing2016 1879 Daily Leader (Bloomington, Illinois) 8 May ‘A young lady out with her maid’, he concluded... He was..sensible of a great longing to know who this little flaneuse could be, to meet her again. 1888 A. Levy in Woman's World 1 366/1 The female club-lounger, the flâneuse of St James Street, latch-key in pocket and eye glasses on nose, remains a creature of the imagination. 1944 Musical Times July 208/1 A list of her [sc. Dame Ethel Smyth's] comings and goings in the late nineties and early Edwardian years would read like the itinerary of a leisured flâneuse whose main interest in life was to go about visiting people and places. 1985 J. Woolff in Theory, Culture & Society 2 37 (title) The invisible flâneuse: women and the literature of modernity. 2017 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 31 July (Living) 8 Elkin has written a delightfully meandering study of Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and other female flâneuses who dared to stroll. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1879 |
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