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mollusque commented on the word talidouce
Eighteenth century Anglicization of taille-douce, a kind of engraving on copper plates.
November 17, 2008
mollusque commented on the word talidouce
What can it advantage us to know the Correspondence kept amongst the Planets, and to understand the whole Anatomy of Nature's Skeleton; in gazing upon whose Parts, we are oft-times as ridiculous as Children, who love to leaf over talidouce Pictures . . .
--George Mackenzie, 1713, Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects, p. 76
November 17, 2008