perfide Albionn.

Brit.

/ˌpɛːfɪd ˈalbɪən/, U.S.

/ˌpɛrfid ˈælbiən/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French perfide Albion.

Etymology: < French perfide Albion (apparently late 18th cent. in la perfide Albion : see note) < perfide (see perfidious adj.) + Albion Albion n. Compare German perfide Albion (early 19th cent. in das perfide Albion : see note). Compare slightly earlier perfidious Albion n. at perfidious adj. Compounds.The phrase appears to have been first used by the Marquis de Ximenès (1726–1817) with reference to the British joining the allies who were already fighting France in 1793:c1793 Marquis de Ximénès in Poésies Révolutionnaires & Contre-révolutionnaires (1821) I. 160 Attaquons dans ses eaux la perfide Albion! Compare earlier perfide Angleterre (1653 in a sermon by J. B. Bossuet):1653 J. B. Bossuet Serm. 1 Jan. in Œuvres Oratoires (1914) I. 271 L'Angleterre, ha! la perfide Angleterre, que le rempart de ses mers rendait inaccessible. In France, the phrase was popularized during a recruitment campaign under Napoleon I in 1813, but its use as a slogan did not become widespread until 1840–1. It was adopted into German (in its French form) during the early 19th cent., and had become naturalized by the time of Bismarck. It was used in German anti-British propaganda during the First World War (1914–18), and during the Second World War (1939–45) to undermine French trust in Britain as an ally (see further H. D. Schmidt ‘The Idea and Slogan of “Perfidious Albion”’ in Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 14 (1953) 604–16).

rhetorical.

England or Britain considered as treacherous in international affairs. Cf. perfidious Albion n. at perfidious adj. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun]

Merry Englanda1400

rosec1460

south1641

perfidious Albion1798

perfide Albion1840

Mother of Parliaments1865

Little England1872

Blighty1900

1840 Hereford Jrnl. 12 Aug. There still remains a portion of invective [in the Paris papers] against the perfide Albion.

1855 Ladies' Cabinet 1 Apr. 184/2 Perfide Albion seemed quite this enthusiast's fair enslaver.

1899 M. Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) I. 52 Had Mr. Kipling been born a Frenchman..he..would..be known to us only as a..fulminator against ‘perfide Albion’.

1947 H. Nicolson Diary 2 Jan. (1968) 88 We always go through these stages of being beastly to our friends because we are frightened of our enemies. It is this that has earned us the reputation of perfide Albion.

1982 A. Briggs in D. Walder Lit. in Mod. World (1990) 190 When British power was..at its height in the 19th century..the notion of perfide Albion was widely publicized.

2018 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 15 Jan. 16 Even Champagne has begun a drift into the terroir of perfide Albion: near my mother's house in Kent, former orchards have been replanted with vines by the house of Taittinger.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	perfide albion
释义	perfide Albionn. Brit. /ˌpɛːfɪd ˈalbɪən/, U.S. /ˌpɛrfid ˈælbiən/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French perfide Albion. Etymology: < French perfide Albion (apparently late 18th cent. in la perfide Albion : see note) < perfide (see perfidious adj.) + Albion Albion n. Compare German perfide Albion (early 19th cent. in das perfide Albion : see note). Compare slightly earlier perfidious Albion n. at perfidious adj. Compounds.The phrase appears to have been first used by the Marquis de Ximenès (1726–1817) with reference to the British joining the allies who were already fighting France in 1793:c1793 Marquis de Ximénès in Poésies Révolutionnaires & Contre-révolutionnaires (1821) I. 160 Attaquons dans ses eaux la perfide Albion! Compare earlier perfide Angleterre (1653 in a sermon by J. B. Bossuet):1653 J. B. Bossuet Serm. 1 Jan. in Œuvres Oratoires (1914) I. 271 L'Angleterre, ha! la perfide Angleterre, que le rempart de ses mers rendait inaccessible. In France, the phrase was popularized during a recruitment campaign under Napoleon I in 1813, but its use as a slogan did not become widespread until 1840–1. It was adopted into German (in its French form) during the early 19th cent., and had become naturalized by the time of Bismarck. It was used in German anti-British propaganda during the First World War (1914–18), and during the Second World War (1939–45) to undermine French trust in Britain as an ally (see further H. D. Schmidt ‘The Idea and Slogan of “Perfidious Albion”’ in Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 14 (1953) 604–16). rhetorical. England or Britain considered as treacherous in international affairs. Cf. perfidious Albion n. at perfidious adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] Merry Englanda1400 rosec1460 south1641 perfidious Albion1798 perfide Albion1840 Mother of Parliaments1865 Little England1872 Blighty1900 1840 Hereford Jrnl. 12 Aug. There still remains a portion of invective [in the Paris papers] against the perfide Albion. 1855 Ladies' Cabinet 1 Apr. 184/2 Perfide Albion seemed quite this enthusiast's fair enslaver. 1899 M. Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) I. 52 Had Mr. Kipling been born a Frenchman..he..would..be known to us only as a..fulminator against ‘perfide Albion’. 1947 H. Nicolson Diary 2 Jan. (1968) 88 We always go through these stages of being beastly to our friends because we are frightened of our enemies. It is this that has earned us the reputation of perfide Albion. 1982 A. Briggs in D. Walder Lit. in Mod. World (1990) 190 When British power was..at its height in the 19th century..the notion of perfide Albion was widely publicized. 2018 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 15 Jan. 16 Even Champagne has begun a drift into the terroir of perfide Albion: near my mother's house in Kent, former orchards have been replanted with vines by the house of Taittinger. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840
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