Lexicographical Neighbors of Narquois
Literary usage of Narquois
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)
"narquoisE, sf} vieux narquois voulait me tromper, the sly old fellow wanted to
... narquois, sm la cunning, a sly fellow. С* (Fia. et Jam.) Parler narquois ..."
2. Sobriquets and Nicknames by Albert Romer Frey (1887)
"Gaspar Poussin. A sobriquet applied to the French painter Gaspar Dughet.
Gaul narquois of Parisian Society, The. A name given to Abbe' Guillaume ..."
3. Boyer's French Dictionary: Comprising All the Additions and Improvements of by Abel Boyer, William Bentley Fowle (1827)
"NARGUER, nlr-^fa, va to scorn, defy, set at defiance. narquois, F. ... Parler
narquois, to use rant 1м- ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language: Crowned by the French Academy by Auguste Brachet (1882)
"For -icula = -ille see § 257; for -ille — -ine see § 157- narquois, adj. bantering.
See narguer. Narration, sf. a narration; from L. nar- rationem. ..."
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