jeune fille
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Her heroine, une jeune fille bien levee, wants to be world tennis champion.
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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.
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The Franglais word teen-ager is rebellious worlds apart from the dutiful jeune fille.
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Marie Antoinette Claudel,* blonde, blue-eyed, ready to pass from jeune fille to grande dame.
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This is how the innkeeper explained to Alkali Dick some peculiarities of French custom: “‘For you comprehend not the position of la jeune fille in all France!
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs
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