The difficulty Ducis felt about translating Othello in consequence of the importance given to such a vulgar thing as a handkerchief, and his attempt to soften its grossness by making the M.or reiterate 'Le bandeau! le bandeau!' may be taken as an example of the difference between la tragedie philosophique and the drama of real life; and the introduction for the first time of the word mouchoir at the Theatre Francais was an era in that romantic - realistic movement of which Hugo is the father and M. Zola the enfant terrible, just as the classicism of the earlier part of the century was emphasised by Talma's refusal to play Greek heroes any longer in a powdered periwig -- one of the many instances, by the way, of that desire for archaeological accuracy in dress which has distinguished the great actors of our age. ❋ Oscar Wilde (1877)
Mom, I just thanked Newforest, too, but I suspect that you are back in this comments box ... sniffing around for more "misplaced" flowers to add to your bouquet (after several ended up in the mouchoir-pouchoir box). ❋ Unknown (2008)
Mom, I just thanked Newforest, too, but I suspect that you are back in this comments box... sniffing around for more "misplaced" flowers to add to your bouquet after several ended up in the mouchoir-pouchoir box. ❋ Unknown (2008)
“I go get a mouchoir,” she said, maternally, heading for the tissue box in the bedroom and returning with a handful. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Je sorti précipitamment un mouchoir et le colla à ses lèvres meurtri. ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)
There was now no especial mouchoir rouge among them. ❋ Unknown (2004)
We are a throwback to the 18th century, when everyone was really nelly and no self-respecting dude went into battle without a perfumed mouchoir. ❋ Unknown (2003)
That indeed she was crying, and was reaching now into her reticule for a mouchoir. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)
Of course, I had nothing more to say; and so I laughed the exhibition off, as a sort of _pas de mouchoir_, like that which brought Forrest into a controversy with Macready. ❋ Various (N/A)
I contrived at length to roll it from my plate into my _mouchoir_, which ❋ Various (N/A)
Had I carried them all in my _mouchoir_ I might have lost the lot, but we simple Yeomen "know a thing or three," as the ancient ballad goes. ❋ P. T. Ross (N/A)
_ -- Very good, though full of stage trick, or what they call, when they get bothered, or would like to bother you, stage _business_; -- as where he throws his pocket-handkerchief before him on leaving the stage, somewhat after the style of Macready in Hamlet, which Forrest called _le pas à mouchoir_, and took the liberty of hissing. ❋ Various (N/A)
Not to be outdone by her mother-in-law on the _mouchoir_ question, she displayed ❋ Various (N/A)
He smiles at the abundance of fancy names, some chosen for their romantic sound, and others for the renowned associations, which are attached to vocalist, shop, and mouchoir. ❋ Various (N/A)
On a stone and earth base, covered with sheet iron, rested a large cast-iron box with many peculiarly shaped apertures resembling as far as possible the incomprehensible design of a lady's lace mouchoir. ❋ Robert Henry Reece (N/A)
She said she was desolated; she 'adn't sufficient coal to take the chill off a mouchoir. ❋ Various (N/A)
Ladies also took snuff; and the belle whose grace and propriety of demeanour were themes of general admiration, thought it not unbecoming to take a pinch at dinner, or to blow her pretty nose in her embroidered _mouchoir_ with the sound of a trombone. ❋ E. R. Billings (N/A)
My parents will be [asleep] during [the party], but they don't want any mouchoir-pouchoir [going on]. ❋ Rhymenocerus (2009)
