manicuriste

Updated: May 29, 2025

To offset this I must record with regret that the late Clyde Fitch once wrote a one-act play about a manicurist, and as this operator on the finger-nails was a woman he entitled his playlet, the Manicuriste; and he did this in spite of the fact that, as a writer fairly familiar with French, he ought to have known the proper term manucure.

Society for Pure English - Society for Pure English, Tract 05: The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems