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All of them created by art, from the young ladies who owe their roses and lilies to Breidenbach, to the ci-devant jeunes hommes, who buy their figures in Bond Street and their faces from Isidore.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

Witness those ci-devant jeunes hommes who stem The stream, nor leave the world which leaveth them.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

I cannot recommend it, save to very enthusiastic mountaineers, or to ci-devant jeunes hommes anxious to test the effects of Time upon their powers of walking and of endurance.

From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William