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/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/ interjection C2- An admonishment said in response to someone using vulgar language during a conversation.
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Ah,” continued Caderousse, speaking in the highly colored language of the South, “the world grows worse and worse.
“He spoke the Romaic language, did he?”
The sobriquet of La Carconte had been bestowed on Madeleine Radelle from the fact that she had been born in a village, so called, situated between Salon and Lambesc; and as a custom existed among the inhabitants of that part of France where Caderousse lived of styling every person by some particular and distinctive appellation, her husband had bestowed on her the name of La Carconte in place of her sweet and euphonious name of Madeleine, which, in all probability, his rude guttural language would not have enabled him to pronounce.
The greatest martinet in the Army in his day, and it was a day of rough language, too.
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