jeune fillen.adj.

Brit.

/ˌʒəːn ˈfiː/, U.S.

/ˌʒən ˈfi/

Inflections: Plural jeunes filles, (rare) jeune filles.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French jeune fille.

Etymology: < French jeune fille girl (late 14th cent. in Middle French) < jeune young (beginning of the 12th cent. in Old French as juvene ; < classical Latin iuvenis : see juvenile adj.) + fille daughter, girl (see file n.³).Not fully naturalized in English. Although French jeune fille is already attested in Middle French, it only superseded the simplex fille as the usual word for ‘girl’ at the beginning of the 19th cent. This was due to the fact that the simplex had developed a pejorative sense ‘prostitute’ (16th cent. in Middle French; short for fille de joie fille de joie n.) and consequently came to be avoided in the sense ‘girl’. The first authors who exclusively used jeune fille in the unmarked sense ‘girl’ appear to have been women writing for an audience of young girls. In plural form jeunes filles after the French plural form.

Esp. in French-speaking contexts: a young girl. Also occasionally as predicative adj.: characteristic of a young girl or ingénue.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun]

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > artless, guileless, or innocent > of a female

jeune fille1946

a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) iii. 80 You are a little too hasty: Jeunes filles, as the French say, are not to be treated so roughly; suffer me to parle un pew.

1802 H. 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.

a1855 C. 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.

1930 D. H. Lawrence Assorted Articles 9 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.

1997 B. Geoffrion & S. Fischler Boom Boom iii. 29 I was so struck by her that I asked whether anybody knew this lovely jeune fille named Marlene.

Compounds

attributive. Characteristic of a young girl or ingénue.

ΚΠ

1892 E. Dowson Let. 23 Feb. (1967) 275 I..think that there is..beneath her double perversity of enfant gâtée and jeune fille coquette a solid foundation of affection.

1926 C. Beaton Diary in Wandering Years (1961) 110 Miss Wilberforce plays safe in a jeune fille frock.

1974 Times 30 Apr. 8/6 The dresses are ravishing—jeune fille dresses of the right sort, drifting and romantic.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	jeune fille
释义	jeune fillen.adj. Brit. /ˌʒəːn ˈfiː/, U.S. /ˌʒən ˈfi/ Inflections: Plural jeunes filles, (rare) jeune filles. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French jeune fille. Etymology: < French jeune fille girl (late 14th cent. in Middle French) < jeune young (beginning of the 12th cent. in Old French as juvene ; < classical Latin iuvenis : see juvenile adj.) + fille daughter, girl (see file n.³).Not fully naturalized in English. Although French jeune fille is already attested in Middle French, it only superseded the simplex fille as the usual word for ‘girl’ at the beginning of the 19th cent. This was due to the fact that the simplex had developed a pejorative sense ‘prostitute’ (16th cent. in Middle French; short for fille de joie fille de joie n.) and consequently came to be avoided in the sense ‘girl’. The first authors who exclusively used jeune fille in the unmarked sense ‘girl’ appear to have been women writing for an audience of young girls. In plural form jeunes filles after the French plural form. Esp. in French-speaking contexts: a young girl. Also occasionally as predicative adj.: characteristic of a young girl or ingénue. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun] maiden-childeOE maidenOE maidc1275 maid-childc1275 wenchc1290 thernec1300 lassc1325 maidenkinc1330 child-womana1382 girlc1400 pucelle1439 maidkin1440 mawther1440 mop1466 woman-child?1515 bonnea1529 urchina1535 kinchin-mort1567 dandiprat1582 prill1587 sluta1592 little girl1603 maggie1603 tendril1603 squall1607 childa1616 filly1616 vriester1652 miss1668 gilpie1720 lassie1725 laddess1768 jeune fillea1777 bitch1785 girly?1786 gal1795 ladyling1807 missikin1815 colleen1828 girleen1833 snowdrop1833 pinafore1836 chica1843 fillette1847 charity-girl1848 urchiness1852 Mädchen1854 gel1857 pusill1884 backfisch1888 girly-girly1888 cliner1895 tittie1918 weeny1929 bobby-soxer1944 the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > artless, guileless, or innocent > of a female jeune fille1946 a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) iii. 80 You are a little too hasty: Jeunes filles, as the French say, are not to be treated so roughly; suffer me to parle un pew. 1802 H. 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. a1855 C. 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. 1930 D. H. Lawrence Assorted Articles 9 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. 1997 B. Geoffrion & S. Fischler Boom Boom iii. 29 I was so struck by her that I asked whether anybody knew this lovely jeune fille named Marlene. Compounds attributive. Characteristic of a young girl or ingénue. ΚΠ 1892 E. Dowson Let. 23 Feb. (1967) 275 I..think that there is..beneath her double perversity of enfant gâtée and jeune fille coquette a solid foundation of affection. 1926 C. Beaton Diary in Wandering Years (1961) 110 Miss Wilberforce plays safe in a jeune fille frock. 1974 Times 30 Apr. 8/6 The dresses are ravishing—jeune fille dresses of the right sort, drifting and romantic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1777
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