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French working girl
Answer for the clue "French working girl ", 8 letters:
grisette
Word definitions for grisette in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grisette \Gri*sette"\, n. [F., fr. grisette a gray woolen cloth, fr. gris gray. Grisettes were so called because they wore gray gowns made of this stuff. See Gars .] A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; especially, a young working-class woman of perceived easy morals.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The word grisette may mean: Grisette (person) , a working-class woman, originally French, or later, good-time girl the Eurasian minnow Any of several species of gill mushrooms in the otherwise poisonous genus Amanita : Grisette, Amanita vaginata Snakeskin ...
Usage examples of grisette.
Possibly by the last grisette, very old and now janitress in the neighborhood.
A balcony ran outside, and on this in the evening we used to stand and smoke and flick paper balls on to the heads of the grisettes and the bonnes passing far underneath.
Leon, while studying law, had gone pretty often to the dancing-rooms, where he was even a great success amongst the grisettes, who thought he had a distinguished air.
There, your chosen persona of the Consumptive Grisette will doubtless melt many tender hearts.