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单词 grisette
释义

grisetten.

/ɡrɪˈzɛt/
Forms: Also 1700s griset, grisset, grizette.
Etymology: < French grisette, < gris grey: see -ette suffix.
1. An inferior grey dress fabric, formerly the common garb of working girls in France. (In quot. 1700 attributive.)
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > other
grisette1700
mesh1725
poodle1827
albatross1877
momie1880
velvet-cloth1882
mummy cloth1886
poodle cloth1896
thorn-proof1908
blackout1941
wash-and-wear1959
breathable1961
Pertex1982
1700 T. Brown et al. tr. P. Scarron Comical Romance i. i. 2 in tr. P. Scarron Whole Comical Wks. His Doublet was a Griset-Coat.
2. A French girl or young woman of the working class, esp. one employed as a shop assistant or a seamstress.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > French nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of France > woman
Frenchwoman?a1400
madame1598
grisette1735
mademoiselle1765
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > working class > one of > woman or girl
working woman1670
grisette1735
Mary Ellen1945
1735 J. Swift Stella at Wood-Park in Wks. II. 215 She vows she will no longer stay, In Lodgings, like a poor Grizette.
a1745 J. Swift (title) To Betty the Grisette.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 111 In a few minutes the Grisset came in with her box of lace.
1815 Sporting Mag. 46 128 The women of Paris of all ranks, grisettes as well as Duchesses.
1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird I. i. 23 That pretty, neat appearance which one sees in French girls of a class just a little above the grisette.
attributive.1803 M. Charlton Wife & Mistress (ed. 2) IV. 29 A fellow..was scarcely able to vie with his valet-de-chambre in any expenditure upon his grisette adventures.1844 L. S. Costello Béarn & Pyrenees: Legendary Tour I. 335 The remarkable beauty of its young women of the grisette class.
3. A noctuid moth, Acronycta strigosa.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > member of genus Acronycta > acronycta strigosa
grisette1869
1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 253 The Grisette.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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