jeune fille
Americannoun
plural
jeunes fillesExample Sentences
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She, a mother of two children, found it very hard to sympathize with the jeune fille, who had been so very much in love with this man she had scarcely seen a dozen times.
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Charmante jeune fille, I find the Tappans really expected me to bring you to them and were much disappointed at my failure.
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She has become in these latter days a proverb, a type—la jeune fille.
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You can't live by gaslight and excitement, nor can naked intelligence run a jeune fille's life.
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There isn't a single dressmaker in this city who can turn out a decent evening dress, and all Helen's clothes will have to be made to order—she can't wear jeune fille things any more.
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