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“apprêts”: what does it mean here?

Voir le CNRTL, plus particulièrement le point A.4. :

Soins attentifs prodigués à une personne, recherche de toilette :

« On va pouvoir En laisser voir Un peu plus haut que la bottine. Ah! Que d’apprêts, De soins coquets, Quel tracas pour la chambrière! » Meilhac, Halévy, La Vie parisienne,1867, III, 9, p. 73.

It means here to make oneself look pretty, to dress up, put make up on, etc., as one might do when preparing to go out. The connotation is that the count is jealous that his fiancée got pretty for the page.

 

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