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- noun Plural form of
fontange .
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Examples
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Convention are aristocrats and royalists, and lament bitterly, that, instead of fish-women, or female patriots of republican external, the galleries are filled with auditors in flounces and anti-civic top-knots, femmes a fontanges.
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Convention are aristocrats and royalists, and lament bitterly, that, instead of fish-women, or female patriots of republican external, the galleries are filled with auditors in flounces and anti-civic top-knots, femmes a fontanges.
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The Jacobins represent themselves as being under the most cruel oppression, declare that the members of the Convention are aristocrats and royalists, and lament bitterly, that, instead of fish-women, or female patriots of republican external, the galleries are filled with auditors in flounces and anti-civic top-knots, femmes a fontanges.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795 Lady, An English 1797
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_ What d'ye lack, Ladies? fine Mazarine hoods, fontanges, girdles, sable tippets? 'p. 394 _Coventry-Blue.
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664
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A sort of hoop was long considered as an indispensable appendage of a hero; the long peruques and _fontanges_, or topknots, kept their ground in heroical tragedy as long as in real life; afterwards it would have been considered as barbarous to appear without powdered and frizzled hair; on this was placed a helmet with variegated feathers; a taffeta scarf fluttered over the gilt paper coat of mail; and the Achilles or Alexander was then completely mounted.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806
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