English Dictionary

French vice

名詞

軽蔑的 婉語 活用形 不可算名詞

(derogatory, potentially offensive) Euphemistic form of lust. / (derogatory, potentially offensive) Euphemistic form of homosexuality.

日本語の意味

（軽蔑的、場合により不適切な表現）肉欲を婉曲的に表現した言葉 / （軽蔑的、場合により不適切な表現）同性愛を婉曲的に表現した言葉

The old pamphlet warned that the French vice was corrupting the youth.

その古いパンフレットは、色欲が若者を堕落させていると警告していた。

意味（1）

(derogatory, potentially offensive) Euphemistic form of lust.

The Englishman had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony; it was said that overeating was the English vice, just as lust was the French vice and drunkenness the German vice. Some Englishmen became very fat, and were famous for being so. Henry VIII ate enormous meals, but as a young man he was slim, perhaps because he always took a great deal of physical exercise. By the time that he was forty-five he was suffering from painful ulcers in his leg which prevented him from riding or walking without the greatest difficulty; but though he ceased to take exercise, he ate as much as ever. He then became very fat.

意味（2）

(derogatory, potentially offensive) Euphemistic form of homosexuality.

Sexuality is frequently associated with foreign places in the dominant discourse, especially when the phenomenon being considered assumes an automatically negative connotation. The Romans held the Greeks responsible for homosexuality, while the latter attributed it to the Persians and the peoples of the Near East; in the Middle Ages, westerners blamed the Muslims... Depending on the period and the context, love between men would also be denounced as the Indochinese vice or the Arab vice (by the colonizers)... and the English vice (by the French) or the French vice (by the English)... when everyone did not agree that it was the German vice.

意味（3）

(derogatory, potentially offensive) Euphemistic form of vanity, excessive self-pride.

The national character, he thought vaguely, is a thing about which a lot of nonsense is spoken and believed. They are very proud of what they call 'sobriety'—spoken of as the national virtue daily. Looking at both-sides-of-the-penny, down-to-earth, you-can't-fool-me... If hypocrisy is the English vice, and vanity the French vice, and obedience the German vice, then surely sobriety is the Dutch vice.

the French vice （ canonical ）