Lexicographical Neighbors of Precieux
Literary usage of Precieux
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Literary History of France by Emile Faguet (1907)
"CHAPTER VI THE POETS FROM 1630-1660; "precieux" AND BURLESQUE POETS THE poets from
... They were called by the name of precious (precieux), and burlesque. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1907)
"If we analyse one by one the artifices of the precieux style ... What the burlesques
deform to make us laugh, the precieux bedeck to excite our admiration. ..."
3. The Quebec Law Index Embracing All the Legislation of the Province of Quebec by Harris Harding Bligh (1898)
"... Oblats,—Portuguese Jews of Montreal,—Preaching Friars,—precieux Sang de Notre-
Dame de Grace,—precieux Sang des Trois-Rivières,—precieux Sang, ..."
4. Initiation Into Literature by Emile Faguet (1914)
"precieux and Burlesques.—Then succeeded the precieux and the burlesques, who
resembled each other, the precieux seeking wit and believing that all literary ..."
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