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
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.