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divorcée

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di⋅vor⋅cée

[di-vawr-sey, -see, -vohr-, -vawr-sey, -vohr-]
–noun
a divorced woman.
Also, di⋅vor⋅cee.


Origin:
1805–15; < F divorcée, fem. of divorcé divorcé
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di·vor·cée   (dĭ-vôr-sā', -sē', -vōr-, -vôr'sā', -sē', -vōr'-)   
n.  A divorced woman.

[French, feminine past participle of divorcer, to divorce, from Old French, from divorce, divorce; see divorce.]
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