carte-and-tierce

Updated: May 20, 2025

Surely we all know men of this kind, and the consternation comparable only to that of M. Jourdain under the impromptu carte-and-tierce of his servant-maid which their sturdy if informal dialectic will often spread among many kinds of "learned societies." But such men are certainly not of the class which Scott supposed to have been ridiculed in the character of Walter Shandy.

H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill - Sterne