I will also call my mousme Kikou, Kikou-San; this name suits her better than Chrysantheme, which, though translating the sense exactly, does not preserve the strange-sounding euphony of the original. ❋ Various (N/A)
The word 'mousme' means a young girl, or very young woman. ❋ Various (N/A)
In her bedroom Fleur had flung off her gown, and, wrapped in a shapeless garment, with the white flower still in her hair, she looked like a mousme, sitting cross-legged on her bed, writing by candlelight. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It contains all that a mousme requires for her correspondence: Indian ink, a paintbrush, very thin, gray-tinted paper, cut up in long narrow strips, and odd-shaped envelopes, into which these strips are slipped (having been folded up in about thirty folds); the envelopes are ornamented with pictures of landscapes, fishes, crabs, or birds. ❋ Various (N/A)
The one we intend to honor to-day carries on his business in the suburbs, in that ancient quarter of big trees and gloomy pagodas where, the other day, I met the pretty little mousme. ❋ Various (N/A)
It so happened that we were a large party, having with us several mousme guests, and from the moment that the rain began to fall from the skies, as if out of a watering-pot turned upside down, the band became disorganized. ❋ Various (N/A)
Well, little mousme, let us part good friends; one last kiss even, if you like. ❋ Various (N/A)
I am well aware that this vibrating house exaggerates every sound during the silence of night; but all the same, I am puzzled to know what my mousme can be doing. ❋ Various (N/A)
"I beg you, mousme, this evening to take the arm of Yves-San; I am sure that will suit us all three." ❋ Various (N/A)
Suddenly this little mousme appeared, a little above me, just at the point of the arch of one of these bridges carpeted with gray moss; she was in full sunshine, and stood out in brilliant clearness, like a fairy vision, against the background of old black temples and deep shadows. ❋ Various (N/A)
And then Charles N--- fancies his mousme is faithless. ❋ Various (N/A)
My mousme, very much taken by it, admired the clearness of the comb and its graceful shape. ❋ Various (N/A)
With a few gentle taps of a fan I awake my surprised mousme; and, curious to catch her first impressions, I announce my departure. ❋ Various (N/A)
And here am I, who did not wish to return this way tonight, dragging a mousme by the hand, and actually carrying an extra burden in the shape of ❋ Various (N/A)
Will there be any touch of sadness on the part of my mousme, or on my own, just a tightening of the heartstrings at the moment of our final farewell? ❋ Various (N/A)
In Japan this is of no consequence, I know; it is very usual, and quite admissible; no matter where one goes, in houses one enters for the first time, one is quite at liberty to kiss any mousme who may be present, without any notice being taken of it. ❋ Various (N/A)
Oyouki will carry a message to her parents, who will shut up our rooms; we shall spend the evening, Yves and I, in roaming about as fancy takes us, without any mousme dragging at our heels, and shall afterward regain our own quarters on board the 'Triomphante', without having the trouble of climbing up that hill. ❋ Various (N/A)
Yesterday I encountered, in an ancient and ruined quarter of the town, a perfectly exquisite mousme, charmingly dressed; a fresh touch of color against the sombre background of decayed buildings. ❋ Various (N/A)
