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Definition of Grisettes
1. grisette [n] - See also: grisette
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grisettes
Literary usage of Grisettes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ins and Outs of Paris: Or, Paris by Day and Night by Julie Granville Marguerittes (1855)
"The grisettes have all a woman's instincts—her sensibility, her love of the
marvellous, her excitability. And the students are severe judges —classical ..."
2. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York by Abram Child Dayton (1896)
"... somewhat damaged—The Apollo ball-room—Young America covertly enjoys an evening
with the grisettes of New York—The attempt to inaugurate monthly balls at ..."
3. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York by Abram Child Dayton (1897)
"... somewhat damaged—The Apollo ball-room—Young America covertly enjoys an evening
with the grisettes of New York—The attempt to inaugurate monthly balls at ..."
4. Equatorial America: Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique by Maturin Murray Ballou (1892)
"grisettes of Martinique. — A Botanical Garden. — Defective Drainage. — A Fatal
Enemy. — A Cannibal Snake. — The Climate. BETWEEN St. Thomas and the island ..."
5. A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq., from 1831 to 1847 by Thomas Raikes (1857)
"... and taken several prisoners, who are on their way to Paris, to be exhibited
as a trophy to the idlers and grisettes in the Champs Elysées. Sunday, 1th. ..."
6. The Works of Charles Paul de Kock, with a General Introduction by Jules Claretie by Paul de Kock (1904)
"THE grisettes THERE are among them many who are pretty, comical, provoking, giddy,
sentimental, honest and even virtuous. And why not ? ..."
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