jeune fille
Americannoun
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jeunes filles
plural
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The Franglais word teen-ager is rebellious worlds apart from the dutiful jeune fille.
From Time Magazine Archive
Josette is 19, une jeune fille bien elevee, adored by her father and adoring him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marie Antoinette Claudel,* blonde, blue-eyed, ready to pass from jeune fille to grande dame.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You know I haven't great founts of sympathy gushing up in my heart for the jeune fille."
From The Visioning by Susan Glaspell
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