bambins

Updated: May 14, 2025

There were the children at play, the women huddled round the steps of the open doorways, in the kindly Roman winter; grim, portentous old hags, such as Michael Angelo painted, draped in majestic raggery; mothers and swarming bambins; slouching countrymen, dark of beard and noble of countenance, posed in superb attitudes, lazy, tattered, and majestic.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Newcomes : Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family