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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
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I might have said she wasn't a bas bleu.
Their Pilgrimage
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There is just a whisper, you know, that you were rather a bas bleu before you came to us.
Sleeping Fires: a Novel
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Schone Seele, and bas bleu!
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 6
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Stockings, to which the " Bas Bleu" was nothing.
The Wide, Wide World
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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
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Such attainments, if sedulously pursued during the succeeding decade, might have converted her into an alarmingly precise Bas Bleu!
The Wheel O' Fortune
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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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