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violon d'Ingresn.

/ˌviːə(ʊ)lɒn ˈdaŋɡrə/
Etymology: French, lit. ‘Ingres' violin’; compare Ingres n.
An occasional pastime, an activity other than that for which one is well-known or at which one excels.
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society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > source of amusement or entertainment
mirtha1250
solacec1290
recreationc1400
esbatement1477
pastime1490
pastancea1500
passe-temps1542
entertainment1561
relief?1578
fancy1590
sport1598
abridgement1600
entertain1601
recreative1615
amusatory1618
nutsa1625
diverter1628
recreator1629
passatempo1632
amuser1724
fun1726
dissipation1733
resource1752
distraction1859
enlivening1859
good, clean fun1867
enlivenment1883
light relief1885
laugh1921
not one's scene1962
violon d'Ingres1963
1964 Robert Dict. Langue Française VI. 1004/1 Violon d'Ingres, le fait, pour un artiste, de pratiquer un art qui n'est pas le sien (le peintre Ingres aurait excellé au violon).
1931 Larousse du XXe Siècle IV. 68/1 Violon d'Ingres. Une légende, assez suspecte, prétend que le peintre Ingres était plus fier de son jeu sur le violon, jeu qui était fort ordinaire, que de sa peinture, qui l'avait rendu illustre.]
1963 E. Hyams New Statesmanship 255 President Eisenhower's violon d'Ingres being golf, it fell to..John Foster Dulles to follow N. S. Kruschev into the pages of the New Statesman.
1968 J. M. White Nightclimber v. 31 Fame, if we achieve it, is thrust upon us for a minor attribute that we rather despise. For example..Ingres..preferred to play his violin—badly—to visitors..instead of showing them his pictures. Night-climbing was my violon d'Ingres.
1973 Listener 13 Sept. 345/2 I suspect that music was no more than Rousseau's violon d'Ingres..and that the composition of The Village Soothsayer was a happy fluke.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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