grisette
a young French workingwoman.
Origin of grisette
1Other words from grisette
- gri·set·tish, adjective
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How to use grisette in a sentence
The three grisettes, however, kept up an incessant fire of small talk and squabble.
In the Days of My Youth | Amelia Ann Blandford EdwardsThe grisettes suddenly forgot their differences, and began to chat quite amicably.
In the Days of My Youth | Amelia Ann Blandford EdwardsThose little grisettes sometimes have the presumption to insist on being virtuous.
San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams | Charles Paul de KockIn the first you meet the fashionable and rich, and in the last, the students with their grisettes, and the still poorer classes.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil | David W. BartlettOf course the grisettes could not be taken with them, and the ties of years were suddenly and rudely to be snapped asunder.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil | David W. Bartlett
British Dictionary definitions for grisette
/ (ɡrɪˈzɛt) /
(esp formerly) a French working-class girl, esp a pretty or flirtatious one
an edible toadstool of the genus Amanita of broad-leaved and birch woods
Origin of grisette
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