"morgue des princes"
English translation: "Royal haughtiness"
| 20:50 Dec 11, 2014 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Mireille BOULANGER France | ||||||
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| 5 | princely arrogance |
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| 5 | royal disdainfulness |
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| 3 | "Royal haughtiness" |
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| 3 | royal pompousness |
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| 3 | royalty morgue |
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| 3 | royal disdain |
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"Royal haughtiness" Explanation: my try but more context would help... |
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royal pompousness Explanation: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pompous |
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princely arrogance Explanation: Must be! |
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royalty morgue Explanation: I couldn't find anything else. If you could give a little bit of context-the surrounding sentences.... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 days1 hr (2014-12-13 21:54:25 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- After reading your context yes I think you are right. Here is my translation of the sentence. C'était un homme juste, la morgue des princes ne l'impressionnait pas. He was a just man,the royal disdainfulness didn't impress him. |
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royal disdainfulness Explanation: C'était un homme juste, la morgue des princes ne l'impressionnait pas. He was a just man,the royal disdainfulness didn't impress him. Reference: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/disdainfulness |
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royal disdain Explanation: shorter |
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| Reference: morgue Reference information: "Attitude, contenance hautaine et méprisante. Morgue aristocratique, hautaine, insolente, insultante, superbe; avec morgue." (http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/morgue) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 48 min (2014-12-11 21:38:16 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Ex. : "Malgré l'air de morgue de leur maître d'hôtel, Françoise avait pu, dès les premiers jours, m'apprendre que les Guermantes n'habitaient pas leur hôtel en vertu d'un droit immémorial, mais d'une location assez récente, et que le jardin sur lequel il donnait du côté que je ne connaissais pas était assez petit et semblable à tous les jardins contigus ; et je sus enfin qu'on n'y voyait ni gibet seigneurial, ni moulin fortifié, ni sauvoir, ni colombier à piliers, ni four banal, ni grange à nef, ni châtelet, ni ponts fixes ou levis, voire volants, non plus que péages, ni aiguilles, chartes, murales ou montjoies." (http://alarecherchedutempsperdu.org/marcelproust/185) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 54 min (2014-12-11 21:44:30 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "Vous ne connaissez guère la morgue des princes Italiens , et malgré que tout doive faire penser, que vous tenez de très-près à la maison régnante, tant que le roi n'aura pas reconnu ou légitimé votre naissance, jamais M. de Talvano ne vous épousera." (https://books.google.fr/books?id=zVs6AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA65&lp... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 dag13 uren (2014-12-13 10:49:58 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Morgue, a French word in English: ʺThe real head-workers have no aristocratic morgue: they wouldrather associate with an intelligent workman, than with an ignorant employer, let him be wrapped about as he will with affected conventional refinements.ʺ (https://books.google.nl/books?id=5SdAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA700&lpg=P... ʺThe fear of being cheated, has made our travellers little better thans cheats themselves ; but the aristocratic morgue, the running after great men, and the Protestant bigotry of the majority of the " English abroad," have gone further still to abate that admiration, which the valor, resources and power of the nation had inspired, at the successful termination of a war unparalleled in history.ʺ (https://books.google.nl/books?id=AmgRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201&lpg=P... |
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