jeune fille
Americannoun
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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
Her heroine, une jeune fille bien levee, wants to be world tennis champion.
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
Tradition, strongest in the outcast, dictated innocence for a jeune fille; ultimately a husband, un foyer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Madame was too charitable to criticise, but I think she regarded the jeune fille Anglaise as unbecomingly emancipated.
From A Padre in France by Birmingham, George A.
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