jeune fille
Americannoun
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jeunes filles
plural
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Josette is 19, une jeune fille bien elevee, adored by her father and adoring him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tradition, strongest in the outcast, dictated innocence for a jeune fille; ultimately a husband, un foyer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The waiter tells Andre that a jeune fille at another table has a message for him.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Franglais word teen-ager is rebellious worlds apart from the dutiful jeune fille.
From Time Magazine Archive
After several moments of ostentatious indifference, she threw out at him, with a conspicuous yawn: "Well, Wayne, what did you think of the terrifying jeune fille?"
From The Visioning by Susan Glaspell
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