Parisienne
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /pəɹɪzɪˈɛn/
Noun

Parisienne (plural Parisiennes)

  1. 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 2001), 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.
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