down-at-heeledness

Updated: July 11, 2026

And we began to feel apologetic for the dinginess and general down-at-heeledness of Venice which bored the men from Munich to extinction really they were so bored, they said, that all day they found themselves looking forward to the caramei man as the town's one excitement.

Elizabeth Robins Pennell - Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties