Fanon

[floralaetifica]

My grandmother reads a lot of Mills and Boon. I've been picking these up in the evening. Just for research purposes, you understand. I've discovered that several of them use the phrase 'carte blanche' to refer to a man making a woman an offer to become his mistress

Comments

[bateleur]

A quick search of the interwebnet suggests that your suspicion is correct and it's fanon.

[mrlloyd]

I've never encountered it, what period are they claiming it's from?.

I'm also having trouble constructing an appropriate sentence. Is it something like "I'd like to set you up as my carte blanche in the city."?

[floralaetifica]

It's along the lines of 'Mr Darcy offered Miss Bennett carte blanche.'

[mrlloyd]

'Miss Bennett looked confused'

Incidentally, have you read the version of Price and Prejudice with zombies yet? If so, is it any good?

[floralaetifica]

I don't do zombies. In any genre.

[secretrebel]

I'm familiar with the phrase and would think of the meaning your described as the prioritised one. No idea if it is historically accurate or not but I've come across it in more than one style of fiction.

[undyingking]

Maybe it started out as 'tarte blanche'.

[floralaetifica]

*shakes head sadly at pun*