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jeune fille

American  
[zhœn fee-yuh] / ʒœn ˈfi yə /

noun

French.
jeunes filles plural
  1. a girl or young woman.


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Josette is 19, une jeune fille bien elevee, adored by her father and adoring him.

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 Alix was no longer a jeune fille.

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

This is how the innkeeper explained to Alkali Dick some peculiarities of French custom: “‘For you comprehend not the position of la jeune fille in all France!

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs

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