agacerie
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French agacerie.
Noun
[edit]agacerie (countable and uncountable, plural agaceries)
- Coquetry; flirtatiousness.
- 1824, Byron, Don Juan:
- The Duchess of Fitz-Fulke, who loved "tracasserie," Began to treat him with some small "agacerie."
- 1833, Frances Milton Trollope, The abbess: a romance - Volume 2, page 122:
- How can any man be well," replied the Count, holding his hand in such a position, as to make the performance of this little agacerie as difficult as possible ; " how can any man be well, overwhelmed by sorrow and disgrace as I am?
- 1861, Martha Walker Freer, History of the reign of Henry IV, King of France and Navarre, page 59:
- She was merry, witty, and even learned; and her manners were enticing and full of agacerie.
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Noun
[edit]agacerie f (plural agaceries)
- (chiefly in the plural) teasing
Further reading
[edit]- “agacerie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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