jeunes filles
- plural of jeune fille.
Example Sentences
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It isn't, you know; actually it's for jeunes filles who want to be slicked up a little in walking, talking, putting on lip lines correctly, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
She felt sure that he felt they were "young ladies," "demoiselles," "jeunes filles."
From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller
In my country, such things are not for les jeunes filles.
From A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story by Brazil, Angela
She's been the acknowledged leader of the jeunes filles since she first came out and has set the fashion among them in everything, from inventing a new cocktail to chaperoning her chaperon.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
Vaguely he had thought her to be French, one of the quaint jeunes filles so rarely taken traveling.
From The Fortieth Door by Bradley, Mary Hastings
