A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. Laurence Sterne

shaming me into one of a better kind.  With all this, La Fleur had a small cast of the coxcomb,—but he seemed at first sight to be more a coxcomb of nature than of art; and, before I had been three days in Paris with him,—he seemed to be no coxcomb at all.

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      A chaise, so called, in France, from its holding but one person.

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      Vide S—’s Travels: [i.e. Dr. Smollett’s “Travels through France and Italy.”—Ed.]