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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

I wish I were being engaged in France instead of here, because there I think les jeunes filles do not have to kiss.

From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

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

There were about twelve tables, three of different coloured carnations for the "jeunes filles," and the rest with roses for the married people.

From The Visits of Elizabeth by Glyn, Elinor

Les jeunes filles may read 'The Black Tulip': indeed, Dumas does not sacrifice at all to "the Goddess of Lubricity," even when he describes very lax moralities.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various