tatillonage

Updated: May 21, 2025

It may well be so, when the disposition of the drama is in the hands of the Duke of Newcastle those hands that are always groping and sprawling, and fluttering, and hurrying on the rest of his precipitate person. But there is no describing him but as M. Courcelle, a French prisoner, did t'other day: "Je ne scais pas," dit il, "je ne scaurois m'exprimer, mais il a un certain tatillonage."

Horace Walpole - Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I