From The Deb's Dictionary, a favorite birthday gift of mine!
Alas: Early Victorian for "Oh HELL!"
Ambidextrous: Not letting your right hand know who is holding your left hand.
Belle: A Deb who never goes to bed the same day she gets up.
Calf: The attractive scenery that adorns the well-known peninsula south of the feminine knee.
Caress: An amiable gesture, between a kiss and a handshake.
Chivalry: The High Resolve of every man to protect every woman against every other man.
Fig Leaf: The coming-out dress of the First Debutante.
Fuss: Deplorable waste of adulation upon a Blonde, as observed by a Brunette (and vice versa).
Modesty: The gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Myth: The idea that gentlemen prefer Blondes!
Osculate: To plant a rose-colored impression of your lips on the face of another.
Powder: What every woman nose.
Spoon: To cuddle closely, as one spoon to another. (I kid you not, it's in the 1931 book!)
Well that was fun.
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