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divorcée

or di·vor·cee

[ dih-vawr-sey, -see, -vohr-, -vawr-sey, -vohr- ]

noun

  1. a divorced woman.


divorcée

/ dɪvɔːˈsiː /

noun

  1. a person, esp a woman, who has been divorced


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Gender Note

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Word History and Origins

Origin of divorcée1

First recorded in 1805–15; from French divorcée, feminine of divorcé; divorcé

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Example Sentences

In 2007, the couple divorced, making Solange a 20-year-old divorcee with a 3-year-old son.

Now every Long Island divorcee thinks she can come and be a sculptor.

Jorge Barahona married divorcee Carmen Armesto in Coral Gables, Florida, in 1996.

I learned that no older woman was in the party with Elizabeth, but a young divorcee and the several men who seemed past forty.

She was magnificently a specimen of the illiterate divorcee of forty made up to look thirty, clever, and alluring.

But we are more struck with the appalling fidelity of the following scene in a tale named the Divorcee.

Each tenant was the peer in imperturbability of a male divorcee in Connecticut, digging clams to earn alimony.

Mr. Britt told him he'll be sure to love me more than ever as soon as I become a guileless divorcee.

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