Cousins, Msr. Chapelin has helped me with a particularly difficult phrase in the passage I sent you previously... So it should read The Marquise in hot pink taffeta ----------- Dear Renée, "The Marquise in taffeta "Cuisse-de-nymphe-émue", embroidered with silver eglantine" "Cuisse-de-nymphe-émue" is the color "hotpink". It is the name of a rose. What a lovely name, textually "Thigh of excited nymph"... but impossible to translate ! Regards. Philippe Chapelin ________________ RHB a écrit : > Can you help me with a French phrase? > >>> "la Marquise en taffetas cuisse-de-nymphe-émue, broché d'églantine >>> d'argent" > > What is / cuisse-de-nymphe-émue/ ????? > > This comes from > http://books.google.com/books?pg=RA1-PA257&dq=de+gruy&ei=6hgoTOqRLoKClAe1l62-Aw&ct=result&id=mEQHCpSD7gMC#v=onepage&q=de%20gruy&f=false > <http://books.google.com/books?pg=RA1-PA257&dq=de+gruy&ei=6hgoTOqRLoKClAe1l62-Aw&ct=result&id=mEQHCpSD7gMC#v=onepage&q=de%20gruy&f=false> >>> and my grand-pere , Antoine, is in this passage. > > Merci > Renée > in St. Louis >> >>