ingenue
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
ingenue (plural ingenues)
- An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve, wholesome girl or young woman.
- (theatre, film) A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.
- Hypernyms: stock character
- cot en
- 2012, Thomas Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969, McFarland (ISBN 9780786472970), page 396 ↗:
- The intelligent and talented blonde who was fluent in English, French and Spanish was interested in art and joined a local theater group to work on set designs but wound up on stage playing an ingenue in Liliom and was spotted by director Vincente Minnelli.
- (rare) Misspelling of ingenu
- Russian: инженю
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