Parisienne
See also: parisienne
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French Parisienne, feminine of Parisien, from Paris.
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Noun edit
Parisienne (plural Parisiennes)
- A woman from Paris.
- 1900, translated from Honoré de Balzac's The Works of Honoré de Balzac, page 157:
- It is so natural to a Parisienne, even when passion has almost mastered her, to hesitate and pause before taking the plunge.
- 2001, Lisa Tierstan, Marianne in the Market, California, page 122:
- Proclaiming taste to be a learned as much as an inborn trait, they sought to establish themselves as aesthetic educators of the vulnerable, unschooled Parisienne.
- 1900, translated from Honoré de Balzac's The Works of Honoré de Balzac, page 157:
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woman from Paris
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French edit
Etymology edit
From Paris.
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Noun edit
Parisienne f (plural Parisiennes)