Word: marniered
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...from his Admiral's rig to cutaway and silk topper (the Queen not bothering to change) for the first of a long & indigestible series of official luncheons and dinners. This one, at the Château Frontenac, served up lobster tails, grilled breast of chicken and a Grand Marnier soufflé which neither the King nor the Queen accepted. This instance of royal distaste had the mimicking lunchers floored for the moment, but the King's personal, scarlet-clad footmen signaled to the Château's blue-uniformed corps (one for every two guests) that...