omoplate

Updated: May 14, 2025

But now here was the Dower House accomplishing wonderful idioms in Anglo-French, and an animated guest telling them sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded of men blown to pieces under his eyes, of fragments of human beings lying about in the streets; there was trouble over the expression omoplate d'une femme, until one of the youngsters got the dictionary and found out it was the shoulder-blade of a woman; of pools of blood everywhere and of flight in the darkness.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Mr. Britling Sees It Through