midinette
Americannoun
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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Women for Bonnard were his wife, Marthe de Meligny, a cute midinette he met when he was 28.
From Time Magazine Archive
The midinette insisted on her silk stockings and her cheap furs in which rabbit predominated.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
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As a whole the midinette class is badly fed and therefore delicate and too often a prey to consumption.
From France by Home, Gordon Cochrane
She too was of her race, alert, vivacious, and as neat as a trivet, as became a former midinette of the rue de la Paix and a daughter of Batignolles.
From The Dust Flower by Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren)
His range was nearly as wide as his lifespan: Paris posters resembling those of Toulouse-Lautrec, portraits of midinettes with the geisha gestures of Hiroshige figures, pointillistic experiments with gossamer landscapes, indolent nudes.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is the ancestor of all the midinettes and grisettes and rotund milkmaids that Renoir was to paint a century later.
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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
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
The midinettes were allowed to leave their work.
From Fighting France by Williams, John Lauris Blake
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