An amusing term which appears so ubiquitously in various film adaptations of Jane Austin novels that it really should enter the public
lexicon as a bit of tounge-in-cheek banter mocking the
stilted, formal manner of speech common during
the Regency period.
Chick: Dude, this party is great and all, but I've been sitting on this couch so long that
my leg is falling asleep.
Dude:
Shall we take a turn about the room?"
