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Word: cryptoprincess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...intercourse of various kinds has always been carried on in Paris, as he recites the squalid life, loves, and even more squalid conversation of the human fauna of Montparnasse: opulent and heavily gartered Tania; Van Norden (now reputedly a New York newspaperman) who loves a poxy and paranoid Russian cryptoprincess; the girls who sit around their brothel parlors scratching themselves "like chimpanzees"; the tortured expatriate Fillmore who cries out the tragicomedy of the Lost Generation: "Sure, I hate those puritanical buggers back home-I hate 'em with all my guts. But I'm one of them myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greatest Living Patagonian | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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