Lexicographical Neighbors of Fredaines
Literary usage of Fredaines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"Je sais vos fredaines, 1 know of your tricks — of ... Il a fait ses fredaines,
he has played his tricks, his pranks. FREDON, sm (t. de musique), quaver. ..."
2. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
"... it was said, at the gaming-table ; but ho did not like an allusion to those
by-gone fredaines. Rebecca saw the scowl gathering over his heavy brow. ..."
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