"Kiseinaya young lady": meaning, origin and examples

In the old days, in the 19th century, the expression "muslin lady" appeared. It meant girls who are not adapted to life. Perhaps they were educated too, but they could not do anything. Today we will analyze history, meaning and examples.

Thin and expensive fabric

Kisei is an elite fabric in the 19th century. As you can understand, dressing gowns from it is difficult to sew. And the same qualities have a girl of noble origin. No, of course, not in the sense that it is impossible to sew work clothes out of it, but because she, brought up on French novels, naturally does not know anything about the cow or cleaning the house with her own hands. To an absolute lack of adaptability to life, a narrow intellectual horizon is also added. In other words, if someone was called a muslin lady in the 19th century, it was not the most flattering characteristic.

Author of phraseology

History gives the palm of primacy in this dispute to Pomyalovsky-the Russian writer who, two years before his death in 1861, wrote the novel "Meshchansky Happiness". Then the expression "muslin young lady" was picked up in his article by the famous literary critic Dmitry Pisarev. He wrote a review about Pomyalovsky's novel. After them there was Nikolai Shelgunov. Then the expression becomes winged and flies from one writer to another.

Rumors about the death of phraseology are greatly exaggerated

Sources say that the expression "muslin young lady" came out of active use, and this is probably true. Other books speak of the complete death of a stable expression, and here it is worth arguing.

Indeed, now there are no girls who have received a classical noble education. Thus, in the literal sense, the expression can not be used, but it is quite actively used when a man behaves "like a girl": he cries and snorts. At the same time, they can say to him: "Well, you men do not cry! Gather up! "Or the same version of the same message:" Well, you've disintegrated like a muslin girl ". Even the children know this expression, although we suspect that not everywhere, not throughout Russia, as they once said in the program "Weather Forecast."

The main thing: the phraseology is alive and will live for a long time. The language is not updated as often as the models of machines or laptops.

New "muslin girls" - blondes

In place of unfit for life noblewoman-petty bourgeoisie came blonde girls. It should immediately be stipulated: a blonde is not a hair color, but a state of mind. These are women who also do not know how to do anything, are not particularly interested in anything. They have one vocation - to be beautiful! But the trouble is that this beauty usually contains someone else. Blonde (the heroine of many modern anecdotes) perfectly suits the role that can be provisionally called "muslin young lady" (phraseology, the meaning of which we have already disassembled).

By the way, about jokes. Sometimes blondes tell stories about themselves and laugh wildly. And all this is not because they have a certain amount of self-irony. They just think that everyone else does not live right. And all these funny humoresque is not very smart people. Here such here an inversion.

Simulators - "muslin girls" from sports

No one likes those who pretend. And it does not matter where the events take place: in the school class or on the football field. Imagine a student who, before the eyes of all honest people, would beg for the teacher's assessment with characteristic howls: "Well, put a third", like a homeless at the station, begging for a copper crescent.

Respect for this behavior does not cause, but someone, watching this picture, could say: "What kind of a muslin lady!". The phraseology in modern language shows the unworthy behavior of men, not women.

With football players the same story as with the students. Some of them want to influence the judge not so much with their real suffering, when there is a clash, but as an actor's skill. It is developed in some athletes. But not only penalty - a stumbling block, but also a penalty. When a football player enters the goal area, he immediately begins to feel weak in the legs and inevitably draws him to the ground. At one time Filippo Inzaghi was a specialist in "diving" in the penalty area.

The melancholy of a muslin lady

Knowing the general nature of the expression, it can be assumed that the languor of the soul of a muslin lady is such a state of mind when a person withers over invented problems. As we understand, now this can happen to everyone, sex does not play a role here.

But let's give an example of a woman's conversation anyway:

"You know, Mikhail called me and said that his head aches." Do you think that's true, or is he lying, because he stopped loving me. Or maybe he got himself another, younger and better.

- Calm down, all this is a vain torment. He will come to you, you will ask him. What for now to languish is senseless?

"What if he does not come again?"

In potential this conversation is eternal. It is easy to imagine in about the same roles lovers of young men or teenagers. If people have something to occupy themselves with, then such a longing does not threaten them. He simply does not have time.