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jeune fille

American  
[zhœn fee-yuh] / ʒœn ˈfi yə /

noun

French.

plural

jeunes filles
  1. a girl or young woman.


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The innocent jeune fille grew, in just a few years, into a sex symbol.

From The Guardian

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 Project Gutenberg

Charmante jeune fille, I find the Tappans really expected me to bring you to them and were much disappointed at my failure.

From Project Gutenberg

She has become in these latter days a proverb, a type—la jeune fille.

From Project Gutenberg

You can't live by gaslight and excitement, nor can naked intelligence run a jeune fille's life.

From Project Gutenberg