Point-devise.

Punctilious: minutely exact. Holofernes says, “I abhor such insociable and point de vise companions, such rackers of orthography.” (French, point de vise.)

“You are rather point de vise in your accoutrements.”—Shakespeare: As You Like It, iii. 2.

previous entry · index · next entry

Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Poetical
Poetical Justice
Poetry on the Greek Model
Pogram
Poille
Poins
Point
Point-blank
Point dAppui (French)
Point de Judas (French)
Point-devise
Points
Points of the Escutcheon
Poison
Poison Detectors
Poison of Khaïbar
Poisoners (Secret)
Poisson dAvril
Poke
Poke
Poke