jeune fille
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Her heroine, une jeune fille bien levee, wants to be world tennis champion.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Franglais word teen-ager is rebellious worlds apart from the dutiful jeune fille.
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
Josette is 19, une jeune fille bien elevee, adored by her father and adoring him.
From Time Magazine Archive
She has become in these latter days a proverb, a type—la jeune fille.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
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