Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… that he displayed in his Bath rules, in his repartees or when telling one of the numerous stories that were part of his entertainment fund. His jests have been collected in a volume, The Jests of Beau Nash, Late Master of the Ceremonies at … ‘social symptom’ ( Briggs 215) , he embodied all of the tensions inherent in the re-creation of Bath: between health and entertainment, the openness of a new society and a later trend towards privacy, and ultimately tensions between the …
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