A few years ago I was reading a Regency Era romance novel, and there was a mini-catfight that involved one woman insulting the other's sister by saying "her figure is always much too circular for her to circulate much in my circle." I Can't remember the exact quote, and my cousin has since taken the book back, but the gist of it was making fun of how often the woman was pregnant. The retort, which I remember a bit better, was "running in circles isn't really dear Daph's style...she lives in Grosvenor SQUARE."
Now, I gather that there's an implied insult in the word "square" -since it was emphasized- but I'm not sure of the exact meaning. I, at first, thought it meant something similar to the 20th century insult "don't be such a square", but now I'm thinking I was wrong.
2007-01-31
12:14:15
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