jeune fille
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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
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
Madame de Maluet has probably brought her up to believe it is not comme il faut for a jeune fille to accept a present from a monsieur.
From Set in Silver by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
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