lavallière
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See also: lavalliere
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]lavallière (plural lavallières)
- Alternative form of lavaliere
- 1918, Laura Lee Hope, The Outdoor Girls in Army Service; Or, Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys[1]:
- "Yes, I wouldn't very much mind getting my pearl lavallière back," said Grace, as she and Amy joined them.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after French noblewoman Louise de La Vallière (1644–1710).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lavallière f (plural lavallières)
- lavaliere, pussy bow (floppy type of necktie)
- 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Départ”, in Tristes Tropiques, Librairie Plon:
- Cette curieuse épave végétale, encore hérissée de ses radicelles, devenait tout à coup humaine par un regard charbonneux qui accentuait la blancheur de la tête, opposition continuée par celle de la chemise blanche et du col empesé et rabattu, contrastant avec le chapeau à larges bords, la lavallière et le costume, toujours noirs.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “lavallière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- lavallière on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
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