Term formerly used of the language spoken by vulgar and uneducated Parisians. A stylized form of poissard enjoyed a brief vogue in the mid-18th c., being used for comedies, parodies, dialogues, verse, and the libretti of opéras-comiques. The invention of the genre poissard is attributed to Jean-Joseph Vadé, its best-known practitioner.
[Vivienne Mylne]
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