English
Merveilleuse
Merveilleuse comes from French Merveilleuse.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentMerveilleuse
- Englishearliest quotation 2002same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentMerveilleuse
- Englishearliest quotation 2002same form
Earliest quotation: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation: “There were the mad fashions sported by the extraordinarily…”
Every English word from French Merveilleuse
Today it means
noun A fashionable young Frenchwoman of the late 18th-century, characterized by extravagant dress sense and anti-revolutionary ideas.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French Merveilleuse / Merveilleuse