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- noun The
wife orfiancée - noun pejorative A condescending term for a female
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From "Little Lessons for Little Ladies." Harper's Weekly Magazine. August 1851."
"Fanny Fallal, although she was not rich, nor person of rank, was a very fine lady. She would pass all her time reading novels and working crochet, but would neglect her household duties; so her husband who was a very nice man, and fond of a very nice dinner, became a member of a Club, and used to stop out very late at night, which led to many quarrels. How foolish it was of Fanny to neglect her household duties and not make her Albert happy at home." Source.
March 15, 2009