irrepressible, haute couture. preciosity, precious, cross-dressing

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China’s irrepressible lawyers

At around 3 a.m. on July 9, human rights lawyer Wang Yu was abducted from her home in Beijing. Her husband, rights defender Bao Longjun, was also disappeared. Wang is renowned in China: She represented Cao Shunli, who died after being denied medical treatment while in custody for her human rights activism; Ilham Tohti, a Uigher scholar unjustly sentenced to life in prison; and protest organizer Wu Gan. In the days since Wang’s arrest, dozens of human rights lawyers and others have been abducted, arrested and disappeared; all told, including those who have been temporarily detained or given warnings, the sweep has targeted more than 200 people in 24 provinces.
The president's view that America is essentially a white country messed up by escapees from non-white ones appears to be irrepressible




FT中文网实习生任禾音：法文Haute Couture不仅指高级定制，还有法律意义，需要被机构认证。在中国，高级定制没有门槛，谁都可以做。

The Cross-Dressing of Art and Couture

By ROBERTA SMITH

The bundling in “Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, seems so excessive as to be unhealthy, or illegal, like 32-ounce sodas. Fear not.

What is extravagant in an inconsistent or an unpassionate way is not
Camp. Neither can anything be Camp that does not seem to spring from
an irrepressible, a virtually uncontrolled sensibility. Without
passion, one gets pseudo-Camp -- what is merely decorative, safe, in a
word, chic. On the barren edge of Camp lie a number of attractive
things: the sleek fantasies of Dali, the haute couture preciosity of
Albicocco's The Girl with the Golden Eyes. But the two things - Camp
and preciosity - must not be confused.



pre·ci·os·i·ty (prĕsh'ē-ŏs'ĭ-tē, prĕs'-)

n., pl., -ties.

1. Extreme meticulousness or overrefinement, as in language, taste, or style.
2. An instance of extreme meticulousness or overrefinement.

[Middle English preciousite, preciousness, from Old French preciosite, from Latin pretiōsitās, from pretiōsus, precious, from pretium, price. See precious.]

couture

 音節cou • ture

発音

kuːtúər

レベル

社会人必須

[名]

1 [U]高級婦人服仕立て, ドレス・メーキング.

2 ((集合的))ファッションデザイナー.

3 （高級デザイナーの）（婦人）服. ⇒HAUTE COUTURE

haute couture

 音節

hàute cou • túre

発音

kuːtúər

[U]オートクチュール.

1 最新流行の高級仕立て婦人服.

2 ((集合的))（特に）パリの高級衣装メーカー［業界, 店］.

［フランス語］

haute couture

Line breaks: haute cou|ture

Pronunciation: /ˌəʊt kʊˈtjʊə

  

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Definition of haute couture in English:

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]

1Expensive, fashionable clothes produced by leadingfashion houses:rails of haute couture

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1.1The designing and making of haute coutureclothing:the champions of haute couture insist that it can be as visionary as any art forman elegant example of haute couture[AS MODIFIER]: an haute couture outfit

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Origin

French, literally 'high dressmaking'.

cross-dress

 

音節

cróss-dréss

[動](自)異性用の衣服を着る.

cróss-dréss・er

[名]

cróss-dréss・ing

[名]