midinette
Americannoun
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midinettes
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of midinette
1905–10; < French, blend of midi noon and dînette light meal ( see dinner, -ette); hence, one who has time for only a light meal at noon, with play on -ette as a feminine personal suffix, as in grisette grisette
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In Ischl the Sissy of the play disguised herself as a midinette, became betrothed to the Emperor in the room where 61 years later he signed the declaration of war against Serbia.
From Time Magazine Archive
The midinette insisted on her silk stockings and her cheap furs in which rabbit predominated.
From Time Magazine Archive
Women for Bonnard were his wife, Marthe de Meligny, a cute midinette he met when he was 28.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the midinette and the femme galante there seemed nothing to do.
From The World Decision by Robert Herrick
First a quite charming and, what is not so usual, a quite intelligible fantasy in mime—The Magic Pipe: Pierrot, faithless mistress, despair, sympathetic friend, adoring midinette, and so on.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917 by Various
Thus 60 Paris dressmakers, employing directly 15,000 midinettes and indirectly a million makers of dress materials, were allowed to fashion style in full freedom.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are the midinettes of Paris, whose nimble fingers no longer stitch gowns but assemble, in the largest plant of its kind on earth, the delicate wiring of radio sets for airplanes and ships.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, five days before the show, 12,000 of Paris' 20,000 midinettes* laid down their needles and flounced out on what was probably France's most popular strike of the year.
From Time Magazine Archive
The midinettes, many of whom were members of the Communist-run General Confederation of Labor, were also supported by the Roman Catholic French Confederation of Christian Workers.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are frequented mostly by laborers, clerks, and midinettes Restaurant Procope, 1922 Successor to the famous "Cave" of 1689 Germany.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
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