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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pr'ecieuse \Pr['e]'cieuse"\, noun An affected woman of polite society, esp. one of the literary women of the French salons of the 17th century. See aslo {preciosity}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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