jeune fille
Americannoun
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jeunes filles
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The Franglais word teen-ager is rebellious worlds apart from the dutiful jeune fille.
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Her heroine, une jeune fille bien levee, wants to be world tennis champion.
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Tradition, strongest in the outcast, dictated innocence for a jeune fille; ultimately a husband, un foyer.
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Marie Antoinette Claudel,* blonde, blue-eyed, ready to pass from jeune fille to grande dame.
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Madame was too charitable to criticise, but I think she regarded the jeune fille Anglaise as unbecomingly emancipated.
From A Padre in France by George A. Birmingham
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