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Mauvaise honte

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Shyness, especially when affected; false modesty. uncountable

    "In that capacity she sat with becoming easiness of mien (for she was as void of the mauvaise honte as any dutchess in the land) [and] bowed very graciously to the compliments of the gentlemen […]."

Etymology

From French mauvaise honte.

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