jeune fille
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Her heroine, une jeune fille bien levee, wants to be world tennis champion.
From Time Magazine Archive
The waiter tells Andre that a jeune fille at another table has a message for him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marie Antoinette Claudel,* blonde, blue-eyed, ready to pass from jeune fille to grande dame.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tradition, strongest in the outcast, dictated innocence for a jeune fille; ultimately a husband, un foyer.
From Time Magazine Archive
But as I said before, there would not be any zest, because you can get a divorce and marry the man so easily it makes it always une affaire de jeune fille.
From Elizabeth Visits America by Glyn, Elinor
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