Associations to the word «Precieuse»

Wiktionary

PRÉCIEUSE, noun. An affected woman of polite society, especially one of the literary women of the French salons of the 17th century.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne