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grisette

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gri·sette  (gr-zt)
n.
A French working-class girl or young woman.
[French, a cheap gray dress fabric, grisette, from gris, gray; see grisaille.]
grisette [grɪˈzɛt]
n
1. (esp formerly) a French working-class girl, esp a pretty or flirtatious one
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) an edible toadstool of the genus Amanita of broad-leaved and birch woods
[from French, from grisette grey fabric used for dresses, from gris grey]


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To hide her astonishment, she assumed the melancholy pose of an injured girl at the mercy of her seducer; inwardly she was laughing like a grisette at her clever trick.
An Old Maid by de Balzac, Honore View in context
or is she some naughty little grisette with an extravagant lover?
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
Still Adrienne thought herself the obliged party, in times as critical as those which then hung over France, in being permitted to toil for a sum that would barely supply a grisette, accustomed all her life to privations, with the coarsest necessaries.
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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