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Indecent conversation, from the French, Bibliothèque Bleu. (Harlots are called “Blues” from the blue gown they were once compelled to wear in the House of Correction.) Source: Dictionary…
A short smock-frock of a blue colour worn commonly by French workmen. Bleu is French argot for manteau. “A garment called bliaut or bliaus, which appears to have been another name for a…
A female pedant. In 1400 a society of ladies and gentlemen was formed at Venice, distinguished by the colour of their stockings, and called della calza. It lasted till 1590, when it…
Ag′ate(2 syl.). So called, says Pliny (xxxvii. 10), from Achates or Gagates, a river in Sicily, near which it is found in abundance. These, these are they, if we consider well, That…
Croissy, Ile-de-France, June, 1815"Whoa! Victorine.
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She kicked Jules the last time she was here,
He's been lame ever since, poor…
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