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![Toes Mustn't Show](https://encyclopediaoftheexquisite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/couvre-pieds-400x300.png)
01/26
Toes Mustn’t Show
In 1818 the formidable French etiquette writer Madame de Genlis (1746-1830) reminded proper ladies that when lounging on a divan, chaise longue or daybed, they’d better hide their feet under a couvre-pieds. “Decency demands it because, stretched out like that,…
![Divine Delilah on the Divan](https://encyclopediaoftheexquisite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/heddy-400x300.png)
12/27
Divine Delilah on the Divan
A friend sent me this image of Heddy Lamarr for Christmas. It’s from her 1949 performance as Delilah in Cecil B. De Mille’s Samson & Delilah, which, naturally, involves much lounging on divans—an entry in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite—and brooding…
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