jeune premier
noun
the male juvenile lead in a play or movie.
jeunes premiers
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pluralof jeune premier.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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His son Henry, in common with most of his author's jeunes premiers, has been similarly objected to as colourless.
From The English Novel by George Saintsbury
While, though Scott's jeunes premiers are not, as he himself well knew and frankly confessed, his greatest triumphs, he has never given us anything of the kind so personally impersonal as Phœbus de Chateaupers.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
