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 Précieuses Ridicules (in Molière’s comedy so called).Precious Stones. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Precio’sa.
 
The heroine of Long-fellow’s Spanish Student, threatened with the vengeance of the Inquisition.   1
 


 Précieuses Ridicules (in Molière’s comedy so called).Precious Stones. 

 
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