jeune fille
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The Franglais word teen-ager is rebellious worlds apart from the dutiful jeune fille.
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So are a maid, her husband who liked Landini, a jeune fille whose scarf was around Landini's neck, an old Chinese servant who speaks rudely.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eventually she reached the Riviera, and played white-clad jeune fille to a smugly relieved mother, who basked then for weeks in the compliments the world paid her upon her daughter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her heroine, une jeune fille bien levee, wants to be world tennis champion.
From Time Magazine Archive
She, a mother of two children, found it very hard to sympathize with the jeune fille, who had been so very much in love with this man she had scarcely seen a dozen times.
From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert
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