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divorcee
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n. A divorced woman
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"divorced woman," 1813, from French divorcée , noun use of fem. past participle of divorcer (see divorce (v.)). The male equivalent in French is divorcé .
Usage examples of divorcee.
September 27, when a surf fisherman in Venice had found the body of Kitt Kimberlin, a nineteen-year-old divorcee with two kids, beneath a rotting pier.
Now, it was the sort of urban landscape that drove divorcees and aging bachelors to jump down the airshaft at Christmastime.
Trudy, a shrill-faced, chainsmoking divorcee, and together they joined the queue outside the bathroom while Honey, an apathetic young Swede, was left to linger moaning in bed before rejoining them later for breakfast in the dining-room upstairs, among all the other girls.
He knew practically everyone in town by name, and there were more than a few divorcees and young widows who had had an eye on him ever since Ellen had been so sick in the last few years.
They were models and secretaries and advertising executives and divorcees and lawyers.
But for once in a way, the lady was not in the position of a divorcee.
In her travels Nicola had often sat in shared bedrooms and cabins and boudoirs and powder parlours, and watched debutantes, predatory divorcees, young hostesses, even reasonably successful good-time girls shimmying out of their cocktail dresses and ballgowns to reveal some bunched nightmare of bloomers, tights, long Johns, Y-fronts.
She got dressed at the same time as Trudy, a shrill-faced, chainsmoking divorcee, and together they joined the queue outside the bathroom while Honey, an apathetic young Swede, was left to linger moaning in bed before rejoining them later for breakfast in the dining-room upstairs, among all the other girls.
Or wait for the divorcees and trust you got one who'd been a cheatee rather than a cheater.
The thirty-year-old divorcee had clearly been smitten, for she described him as “handsome, sort of muscular, like a superhero right out of a movie, with the dreamiest blue eyes.
Chalet girls, PAs from Knightsbridge, glamorous divorcees on the prowl, au pairs who'd escaped, gazed at him in wonder.
Ted Whittaker, is a former Miss Bloomfield Hills, a vain divorcee with a towering mass of blond curls in a shade not her own.
In her travels Nicola had often sat in shared bedrooms andcabins and boudoirs and powder parlours, and watched debutantes,predatory divorcees, young hostesses, even reasonably successfulgood-time girls shimmying out of their cocktail dresses andballgowns to reveal some bunched nightmare of bloomers, tights, long Johns, Y-fronts.
Both the manager, a Southampton socialite and divorcée named Penny Pierce, and the boy who cut the mats and framed (and framed and framed) all day were there.
You write about being a divorcée and a widow, but you’ve never even been married.