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There is a French phrase for the event known as "the parade of whores". This is where a group of whores at a brothel are presented to a customer so that he can take his pick—an event famously depicted in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Picasso. Does anyone know the French phrase in question?
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I found it—but boy, is it an anticlimax: Their [The Les Demoiselles d'Avignon nudes'] formal aspect was a favourite of 1890s' painting, memorably captured by Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec; it is the parade, the moment the prostitutes of the house display themselves to the client and he picks one.
—Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New (1980) The italics are Hughes'.
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That might be the title of the painting, but, if there is such a phrase I would suspect that's not it.
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H's repost indicates that the phrase is parade..
-ron (anticlimatic) obvious
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Wull, mehbe... sesquiguously
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FWIW, A runway fashion show is "défilé de mode" (also défilé haute couture and défilé prêt-à-porter).
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