Crossword-Solution: GRECQUE 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Esteem, respect, friendship may be won, lost, regained; but as to love--I might school myself for a thousand years, and it would not blossom again, especially for a woman too old to respond to it.” “I hope, Monsieur le Comte, I sincerely hope, that such words may not be spoken to you some day by the woman you love, and in such a tone and accent--” “Will you put on a dress _a la Grecque_ this evening, and come to the Opera?” The shudder with which the Countess received the suggestion was a mute reply.

There were some who despaired of the French language altogether, who thought it naturally incapable of the fulness and elegance of Greek and Latin--cette elegance et copie qui est en la langue Grecque et Romaine--that science could be adequately discussed, and poetry nobly written, only in the dead languages.

But he has the ambition not only of being a courtier and a lover, but a great scholar also; he is anxious about orthography, about the letter e Grecque, the true spelling of Latin names in French writing, and the restoration of the letter i to its primitive liberty--del' i voyelle en sa premiere liberte.

Then he would turn away to the portrait of his dead Lise, who with hair curled à la grecque looked tenderly and gaily at him out of the gilt frame.

The countess was to wear a claret-colored velvet dress, and the two girls white gauze over pink silk slips, with roses on their bodices and their hair dressed à la grecque.