merveilleuse

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Definition of merveilleuse in English English dictionary

A fashionable young Frenchwoman of the late 18th-century, characterized by extravagant dress sense and anti-revolutionary ideas

The female equivalents were called Merveilleuses and adopted Greek dress and espoused a neo-classical nostalgia.

A fashionable young Frenchwoman of the late 18th-century, characterised by extravagent dress sense and anti-revolutionary ideas

Etymology

() From French Merveilleuse.