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‖ jolie laide|ʒɔli lɛd|
[Fr., fem. sing. of joli pretty + laid ugly.]
A woman or girl who is attractive in spite of not being pretty. Occas. joli laid |lɛ|, applied to a man.
1894Lady Monkswell Diary 12 May in E.C.F. Collier Victorian Diarist (1944) I. 243 Mrs. Flower is a ‘jolie laide’ of about 50, rather charming. 1949N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate i. viii. 87 One was a beauty or a jolie-laide and that was that. 1960D. Holman-Hunt My Grandmothers & I i. 6 The lazy young ladies who came to stay were called jolies laides. 1961Times 10 Oct. 16/1 The arrival in the house..of a jolie-laide innocent looking for the Y.W.C.A. 1966Observer 20 Mar. 25/4 He has the joli-laid face of a boxer. 1972Times 22 June 12/5 Sexual teases like jolie-laide Israeli Drora. 1973R. Rendell Some lie & Some Die xi. 95 He had an ugly attractive face, joli laid. |