You'll pardon me,-a chair,-a-" The old man would have fallen, but the Major caught his arm and helped him to a seat, where a crowd of fashionables surrounded him, and did all they possibly could to prevent his recovery from his fit by keeping away every breath of air, and thrusting at him bottles of salts, vinaigrettes, and scents of every fashionable kind.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
Then comes the corbeille de mariage, well stored with the finest laces, the most delicately embroidered pocket handkerchiefs, veils, fichus, chemisettes and canezous, trinkets, smelling-bottles, fans, vinaigrettes, gloves, garters; and though last, not least, a purse well filled to meet the wants or wishes of the bride,-a judicious attention never omitted.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner
These vinaigrettes, as they are called, would be appreciated at home, if habit took kindly to novelties.
"A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees"
Edwin Asa Dix