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undergraduˈette colloq. (now rare).
[Altered f. undergraduate n.: see -ette.]
A female undergraduate.
1919Observer 23 Nov. 17/4 The audience was chiefly composed of under-graduates and under-graduettes. 1926Spectator 23 Oct. 677/1 There are too many undergraduettes at Oxford. 1934W. Gerhardie Resurrection xcv. 355 A professor, a don, an undergraduette in black cotton stockings, a green-grocer's boy—all move on bicycles. 1940Graves & Hodge Long Week-End viii. 123 The subject of the duel was reported in the London Press to be an ‘undergraduette of Somerville’. 1972J. Potter Going West 70 He ostentatiously walked out arm-in-arm with the prettiest undergraduettes. 1980Listener 23 Oct. 549/2 In the Oxford of 1939..I remember a red-headed ‘undergraduette’ (as we then rather quaintly would have called her). |