Then you can use ft model object as usual: > ft.get_word_vector( 'hello').shape To strut about on Crébillon street.> ft = fasttext.load_model( 'cc.en.300.bin') Faire le beau dans la rue Crébillon.Ĭrébillonner. Morel publisher, 20 rue Crébillon, Nantes – 1884):Ĭrébillonner. Paul Eudel (1837-1911) defined this verb as follows in Les Locutions nantaises (A. The verb crébillonner, or crébilloner, meaning to window-shop, is peculiar to Nantes, a city in western France, on the River Loire it is from rue Crébillon, the most exclusive shopping street in Nantes, named after the French playwright Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674-1762). Mrs Lionel and her daughter Marie, having stopped at the window of a shop, heard whispered behind them: “Look at the window shoppers! They cannot buy anything and they content themselves with pressing their noses to the windows.” Mme Lionel et sa fille Marie, s’étant arrêtées à la devanture d’un magasin, entendirent chuchoter derrière elles : « Voyez donc les lèche-vitrines ! Elles ne peuvent rien acheter et elles se contentent de coller leur nez sur les verres. » The earliest instance that I have found is used in the sense of window shopper it is from Mon Pays sera le plus grand ( My Country will be the greatest), a novel by the otherwise unknown Louis Dumas, published in the Mercure de France (Paris) of Monday 15 th August 1932: The French equivalent of window shopping is the masculine noun lèche-vitrine(s), from the verb lécher, meaning to lick, and the noun vitrine, meaning shop window. To enjoy the feast fully, one must not be ashamed to do a little ‘ window shopping,’ it need not matter if you run the risk of being looked upon as ‘from the country.’ A walk down Chestnut street is like a stroll through a museum of all sorts.
The display is unusually attractive for this early in the season.
The tradesmen are brightening up the windows with holiday goods. The earliest instance that I have found is from Our Philadelphia Letter, published in The Shenango Valley Argus (Greenville, Pennsylvania) of Saturday 6 th November 1875: The noun window shopping designates the activity of looking at goods displayed in shop windows, especially without intending to buy anything.