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‖ jeune fille|ʒœn fij|
[Fr.]
A young girl. Used attrib. or as adj.: characteristic of an ingénue.
1802H. Eckersall Jrnl. 4 July in Malthus Trav. Diaries (1966) 296 Les jeunes filles who were sitting near us were much diverted but did not look as if they would take his advice. a1855C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. xii. 191, I took these sketches in the second-class school-room of Mdlle. Reuter's establishment, where about a hundred specimens of the genus ‘jeune fille’ collected together, offered a fertile variety of subject. 1888E. Dowson Let. 13 Nov. (1967) 19 It is not les filles de l'opéra or horizontales that I protest against—it is les jeunes filles de société. 1892[see enfant gâté]. 1903H. James Ambassadors vi. xiv. 189 It will really be a chance for you..to see the jeune fille—I mean the type—as she actually is. 1926C. Beaton Diary in Wandering Yrs. (1961) 110 Miss Wilberforce plays safe in a jeune fille frock. 1928D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 519 Talking to an intelligent girl, the famous ‘jeune fille’..you find..that she, the innocent girl in question, is flinging all sorts of fierce questions at your head. 1946‘S. Russell’ To Bed with Grand Music ix. 115, I always think romance is rather jeune fille. 1974Times 30 Apr. 8/6 The dresses are ravishing—jeune fille dresses of the right sort, drifting and romantic. |