Crossword-Solution: TORTONI 7 letters, 45 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The fashionable ladies of that time drove in the afternoon along the boulevards from the Madeleine to the Château d’Eau, and stopped their ponderous yellow barouches at Tortoni’s, where ices were served to them in their carriages, while they chatted with immaculate dandies in skin-tight nankeen unmentionables, blue swallow-tailed coats, and furry ‘beaver” hats.

These ices had been ordered by Madame du Val-Noble of Tortoni, whose shop is at the corner of the Rue Taitbout and the Boulevard.

Contenson, who thought this demand on the part of the shop-boy rather strange, went downstairs and startled him by saying: “Then you have not come from Tortoni’s?” and then went straight upstairs again.

About one o’clock, Maxime was chewing a toothpick and talking with du Tillet on Tortoni’s portico, where speculation held a little Bourse, a sort of prelude to the great one.

Write! (You can get them that way at Tortoni’s)—Write, if you please! “Here is a nice little Latin phrase, and rare too, (one can’t be too _recherché_ or brief in one’s Latin, it’s getting so common—ignoratio elenchi.