jeune fille
Americannoun
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jeunes filles
plural
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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
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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Josette is 19, une jeune fille bien elevee, adored by her father and adoring him.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is particularly so in regard to the jeune fille, who ceases to come under that title as soon as she has reached the age of twenty-five.
From France by Gordon Cochrane Home
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