SHORT-DATED • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Short-dated

... has his wits and his memory about him may perhaps say, "Promising perhaps; but paying?" The answer must be that the promise may have taken some time to be fully liquidated, but that the immediate or short-dated payment was great. The fault of the Chansons de Geste—a fault which in some degree is to be found in French literature as a whole, and to a greater extent in all mediaeval literature—is that the class and the type are rather too prominent. The ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury