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- noun False modesty; bashfulness; shyness.
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- noun
Bashfulness ,shyness .
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From French mauvaise honte.
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laiane commented on the word mauvaise honte
Bashfulness; from the French - "bad shame"
Encountered in an English gothic novel, The Monk, by Matthew Gregory Lewis.
October 25, 2009