What does musard mean?
Musard means (literary) A dreamer; an absent-minded person..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(literary) A dreamer; an absent-minded person..
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?)
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.
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.
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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Musard means (literary) A dreamer; an absent-minded person..
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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?)
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