10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BAISEMAIN»
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A Lexicon of French Borrowings in the German Vocabulary ...
baisemain - bal 131 BAISEMAIN (n.) The Span. greeting beso los manos 'I kiss
your hands' appears to have been known in Germany from the late 16th c., and is
reproduced with varying accuracy in texts of the period (see also the forms ...
William Jervis Jones, 1976
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The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to ...
baisemain [French]. E . . . Voyage en Grande Bourgeoisie, which is a sociological
self-help book for those who wish to [act like the upper crust]. . . . [W]hile it doesn't
exactly give etiquette lessons it does invoke the problems of balancing a full ...
3
La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life
“Okay, but I have a fourth baisemain,” I said. I told Lévy I had been at an event
hosted by Chirac that week and saw how he had greeted a dear friend, the
former minister Simone Veil. Chirac had stretched out his arms and extended his
hands ...
4
French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening ...
It seems that the French are always touching one another, kissing hands, shaking
hands, or giving one another pecks on the cheek. There are even rules for all this
. For example, the famous baisemain. Americans aren't used to this, and one ...
Harriet Welty Rochefort, 1999
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The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases
BAISEMAIN J. Davies, Tr. Mandelslo, Bk. I. p. ai (1660). 1737 Some Surat Baflaes
dyed blue, and some Berams dyed red, whicn are both coarse Cotton Cloth: A.
Hamilton, East India, 11. 125. [Yule] 1813 Byrams of sorts [among Surat ...
Charles Augustus Maude Fennell, 1891
If Monsieur Baisemain allowed himself to be deceived . . ." "I'd like to hear the
whole story," Monsieur Baisemain had said. "There's really no need," Drapeur
told him. Parpoil had now introduced himself. He announced that he had the
honor to ...
... à cheval—On horse (massed) arme—poor Abendbrot—evening bread; supper
Baisemain—Being presented to the court Bauenhof—barnyard berliner—type of
small horsedrawn buggy Bier—beer bitte—please or you're welcome Blitzen!
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The French Remembrancer, Or, a New & Easy Method of ...
3 Baisemain, a kissing ofhands Andain, whatahaymaker can at court by way of
homow at one stroke. mage; in the pl. compliAppui-main, apainter's-lean- merits.
But it is fem.'in ing stick. 7 the expression d belles Aubain, an alien. baisemains, ...
9
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
... by learning either that there are courts where queens and princesses have
official rank in public ceremonies, and others where they have to content
themselves with looking on as mere spectators ; or that the ceremony of the
baisemain, the ...
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The Edinburgh monthly magazine [afterw.] Blackwood's ...
... by learning either that there are courts where queens and princesses have
official rank in public ceremonies, and others where they have to content
themselves with looking on as mere spectators ; or that the ceremony of the
baisemain, the ...
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BAISEMAIN»
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Lumière | The New Normal Chic
Jacques Chirac, when he was president, greeted just about every woman in government with a baisemain — a kiss of the hand. Sarkozy was ... «New York Times, Jun 12»
Tribune : Pour une culture libre au Maroc
Ses derniers articles: Le baisemain au Maroc, une tradition archaïque · Marocains libres, les interdits vous guettent! Tribune : Pour une culture ... «Slate Afrique, May 12»
Pippa Middleton: they all want a piece of our party queen
... to eat puddings other than those made with cream, and the ritual of le baisemain (kissing a lady's hand) should never be performed outdoors. «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 12»
Art of seduction
... a night-tour of Paris illuminated, Chirac's baisemain, a playful, yet intellectual conversation with Jean d'Ormesson. Saying that a politician is a ... «Times of India, Jul 11»
Des soufis en banlieue parisienne
Mis à part cette adresse respectueuse, il existe un autre signe à double fonction, de gratitude et de salutation : le baisemain mutuel que les fuqarā' font soit ... «Revues.org, Jul 11»
La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life
From the social bise and baisemain, or traditional kiss of the hand greeting, to the multiple definitions of seduire, and even the overtly sexual ... «Huffington Post, Jun 11»
Une Américaine au pays de la séduction
D'entrée, Elaine Sciolino prend une leçon de baisemain avec Maurice Lévy, le président de Publicis, qui corrige et supplémente celui de ... «Le Monde, May 11»
Opération Séduction
When we arrived that Sunday morning, Chirac shook hands with Roger and welcomed me with a baisemain, a kiss of the hand. The ritual ... «New York Times, May 11»
Maroc : le sondage interdit
Chaque année, fin juillet, la traditionnelle cérémonie d'allégeance, avec son baisemain et l'attitude servile des élites invitées, reste digne des ... «Le Monde, Aug 09»
