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musard (複数形 musards)

1. (literary) A dreamer; an absent-minded person.
   • 1796, An Appeal to impartial posterity, An Appeal to impartial posterity, page 217:

     How do the sciences go on in the midst of our political convulsions, and our financial distress? and the men of leaning, and the great talkers, and the collections, and the courses of lectures, and La Blancherie, and the museums, and the musards ( loungers?)

   • 1881, The Tribune Reflects: And Other Poems:

     For while alluring fortune beckons me
     Along, I'll follow it, ev'n to the verge
     Of death—ay, hell, if but a musard hope
     Should taste success, and my ambition dower
     Me with a specious immortality.

   • 1883, Charles D. Morley, Aglaia Unveiled: a Poetical Romaunt; and Miscellaneous Verses, page 6:

     Earth's sons arise, inhabit, and return, Like fleeting forms before a musard's eyes; Yet, as some Phœnix out a funeral urn, See! from their lives, new lives in youth arise.

   • 1944, Ernest Hall Templin, The Social Approach to Literature - Volume 28, page 407:

     He belittled his fellow citizens, as was his habit, by remarking that Monsieur Musard was a bagatelle to amuse all the other musards of Paris, who had no important use for their time.

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