petits soinsn.

Brit.

/ˌpɛtɪ ˈswɑːn/, U.S.

/ˌpɛdi ˈswɑn/

Forms: 1700s–1800s petit-soins (irregular), 1700s– petits soins.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French petits soins.

Etymology: < French petits soins (1662) < petits , plural of petit (see petit adj.) + soins , plural of soin care (see soigné adj.).

With plural agreement. Small services or gestures of attentiveness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > small

petits soins1772

1772 S. Scott Test Filial Duty II. 221 Not even the little town of petits Soins was out of our map; Sir Charles converted it almost into a city.

1820 A. Opie Tales of Heart IV. 292 Melville dined at home that day, and paid her voluntarily all those petits soins which she had demanded of Arthur.

1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. iii. 59 Elsley showed Lucia no petits soins.

1877 L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine (1879) xviii. 168 There is a good deal of labour and sorrow in the conduct of a courtship at best, when all the petit-soins are inspired by the heart of a suitor.

1959 Times 31 Oct. 7/4 All the barometer ever gets in the way of petits soins is this allegedly deleterious tapping.

2001 Financial Times (Nexis) 29 Dec. 16 The ‘rive gauche’ is the land of emotion, tenderness and ‘petits soins’ in which a woman risks being swept away to the left-hand side.

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

单词	petits soins
释义	petits soinsn. Brit. /ˌpɛtɪ ˈswɑːn/, U.S. /ˌpɛdi ˈswɑn/ Forms: 1700s–1800s petit-soins (irregular), 1700s– petits soins. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French petits soins. Etymology: < French petits soins (1662) < petits , plural of petit (see petit adj.) + soins , plural of soin care (see soigné adj.). With plural agreement. Small services or gestures of attentiveness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > small petits soins1772 1772 S. Scott Test Filial Duty II. 221 Not even the little town of petits Soins was out of our map; Sir Charles converted it almost into a city. 1820 A. Opie Tales of Heart IV. 292 Melville dined at home that day, and paid her voluntarily all those petits soins which she had demanded of Arthur. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. iii. 59 Elsley showed Lucia no petits soins. 1877 L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine (1879) xviii. 168 There is a good deal of labour and sorrow in the conduct of a courtship at best, when all the petit-soins are inspired by the heart of a suitor. 1959 Times 31 Oct. 7/4 All the barometer ever gets in the way of petits soins is this allegedly deleterious tapping. 2001 Financial Times (Nexis) 29 Dec. 16 The ‘rive gauche’ is the land of emotion, tenderness and ‘petits soins’ in which a woman risks being swept away to the left-hand side. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1772
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