divorcée

or di·vor·cee

[ dih-vawr-sey, -see, -vohr-, -vawr-sey, -vohr- ]

noun

1. a divorced woman.

divorcée

/ dɪvɔːˈsiː /

noun

1. a person, esp a woman, who has been divorced

Gender Note

See fiancée.

Word History and Origins

Origin of divorcée¹

First recorded in 1805–15; from French divorcée, feminine of divorcé; divorcé

Example Sentences

A divorcée with three sons, she owned a wine and cheese business in New Orleans before Christie’s Auction House hired her to start a wine department in North America.

From Washington Post

Cut it down to one sentence, and then “rehearse it until it’s memorized,” Fagan says, perhaps with a fellow divorcée.

From Washington Post

In 25 years of practice, she has seen many young divorcées — and says that the fear of what others will think often causes her clients to delay the inevitable.

From Washington Post

Reno, Nevada, was famous for its ranches filled with recent divorcées as far back as the 1930s.

From Ozy

Smart later triumphed, though, with back-to-back Emmys in 2000 and 2001 for her recurring guest-star role on “Frasier” as Lana Gardner, Frasier’s high school crush who resurfaces in his adult life as a beautiful divorcée.

From Washington Post

In 2007, the couple divorced, making Solange a 20-year-old divorcee with a 3-year-old son.

From The Daily Beast

Now every Long Island divorcee thinks she can come and be a sculptor.

From The Daily Beast

Jorge Barahona married divorcee Carmen Armesto in Coral Gables, Florida, in 1996.

From The Daily Beast

I learned that no older woman was in the party with Elizabeth, but a young divorcee and the several men who seemed past forty.

From Project Gutenberg

She was magnificently a specimen of the illiterate divorcee of forty made up to look thirty, clever, and alluring.

From Project Gutenberg

But we are more struck with the appalling fidelity of the following scene in a tale named the Divorcee.

From Project Gutenberg

Each tenant was the peer in imperturbability of a male divorcee in Connecticut, digging clams to earn alimony.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Britt told him he'll be sure to love me more than ever as soon as I become a guileless divorcee.

From Project Gutenberg