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Meanings of bas bleu in English

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saberuda

A woman having literary or intellectual interests.

        saberuda
        Usage of bas bleu in English
        1
        I might have said she wasn't a bas bleu.
        Their Pilgrimage
        2
        There is just a whisper, you know, that you were rather a bas bleu before you came to us.
        Sleeping Fires: a Novel
        3
        Schone Seele, and bas bleu!
        The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 6
        4
        Stockings, to which the " Bas Bleu" was nothing.
        The Wide, Wide World
        5
        See "Florio," a poetical tale, which Miss Hannah More had recently published with the " Bas Bleu.
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
        6
        Such attainments, if sedulously pursued during the succeeding decade, might have converted her into an alarmingly precise Bas Bleu!
        The Wheel O' Fortune
        7
        If you question my sincerity, can you doubt my admiring you, when you have gratified my self-love so amply in your Bas Bleu?
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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