affected elegance
1mince — [mins] vt. minced, mincing [ME mincen < OFr mincier < VL * minutiare < L minutus, small: see MINUTE2] 1. to cut up or chop up (meat, etc.) into very small pieces; hash 2. to subdivide minutely 3. to express or do with affected elegance… …
2mince — mincer, n. /mins/, v., minced, mincing, n. v.t. 1. to cut or chop into very small pieces. 2. to soften, moderate, or weaken (one s words), esp. for the sake of decorum or courtesy. 3. to perform or utter with affected elegance. 4. to subdivide… …
3PARMIGIANINO (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) Leoni — (1503 1540) Francesco Mazzola, best known from the late sixteenth century by the diminutive il Parmigianino after his native Parma, was one of the premier Italian Mannerist painters and draftsmen of the generation of artists to follow Raphael*… …
Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
4mince — [c]/mɪns / (say mins) verb (minced, mincing) –verb (t) 1. to cut or chop into very small pieces. 2. to subdivide minutely, as land, a subject, etc. 3. to soften or moderate (one s words, etc.) to a milder form. 4. to speak of (matters) in polite… …
5Frippery — Frip per*y, n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See {Fripper}.] 1. Coast off clothes. [Obs.] B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. [1913 Webster] Fond of gauze and French frippery.… …
6Gongorism — Gon go*rism, n. An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561 1627), among others of his time, was noted. Gongorism, that curious disease of euphuism, that broke out simultaneously in Italy, England …
7euphuism — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. inflation, grandiloquence, floridness, ornateness of style, delicacy, purism, Gongorism, affected elegance of language, pomposity, bombast, fustian, rhetoric; see also wordiness …
8froufrou — (FROO froo) [French] Ruffles, frills, and other furbelows used to decorate women’s clothing. Also, a soft rustling or swishing sound, as that made by a silk dress. Informally, fanciness; affected elegance. There is no more frou frou… …
9frou-frou — (FROO froo) [French] Ruffles, frills, and other furbelows used to decorate women’s clothing. Also, a soft rustling or swishing sound, as that made by a silk dress. Informally, fanciness; affected elegance. There is no more frou frou… …
10euphuism — n. 1. Purism, finical style, fastidious delicacy (in the use of language), affected elegance. 2. High flown diction, pompous style, extravagantly ornate diction …
