concept
Mesdemoiselles (affectation)
mesdemoiselles
also: мамзели
French for 'young ladies'; the masked millionaire peppers his coarse Russian with mangled French phrases as a comic marker of a nouveau-riche man aping high society.
Reading notes
- The Mask §19 mesdemoiselles
French for 'young ladies'; the masked man peppers his coarse speech with mangled French phrases ('Zhe voo pree a la trimontrahn') as a comic marker of a nouveau-riche merchant aping high society.