Parisienne

[puh-ree-zee-en]

noun

1. a girl or woman who is a native or inhabitant of Paris, France.

Gender Note

See -enne.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Parisienne¹

1885–90; < French parisienne, feminine of parisien Parisian

Example Sentences

As framed by beautiful, evocative pairings that punctuate the show’s final galleries, the conversation continued, with some of Manet’s later boudoir interiors and portraits of fashionable Parisiennes unthinkable without Morisot’s example.

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But perhaps the most quintessential Parisian touch was a fruit basket — a homage to the Parisienne of the 1970s.

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Thierry Ways, the owner of La Parisienne, a delicatessen in the coastal city of Barranquilla, also pointed out the inconsistency in the new rule.

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Parisienne allegedly lured Grant out of his apartment into a stairwell before he was attacked.

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With a girl I saw him then, That vile Parisienne, Down by the Seine.

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