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Definition: GRISETTE |
GRISETTENoun1. A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. |
Date "GRISETTE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Etymology: Grisette \Gri*sette"\, noun. [French expression, from grisette gray woolen cloth, from gris gray. Grisettes were so called because they wore gray gowns made of this stuff. See Gars.]. (references) |
"GRISETTE" is a common misspelling or typo for: greeted, greeter, grist, gristle, resettle, risotto, rosette. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary, proletaire, roturier, Mr. Snooks, bourgeois, epicier, Philistine, grisette, demimonde. |
Libertine | Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave. |
Woman | Nymph, wench, grisette; girl. (youth). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "GRISETTE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Vietnamese | cô công nhân Pháp. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GRISETTE": grisettes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tergites. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: getters, tergite, testier. | |
-2 letters: egrets, getter, greets, resite, retest, reties, setter, sitter, street, tester, tigers, titers, titres, triste. | |
-3 letters: egers, egest, egret, ester, geest, geste, girts, grees, greet, grist, grits, reest, reges, reset, retie, rites, serge, siege, siree, steer, stere, terse, tiers, tiger, tires, titer, titre, trees, trets, tries, trigs, trite. | |
-4 letters: eger, egis. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: aigrettes, grisettes, resetting, retesting. | |
+2 letters: argentites, cigarettes, estreating, integrates, interstage, letterings, presetting, pretesting, resettling, retightens, strategies, strategize, tighteners, trusteeing, vignetters. | |
+3 letters: gillnetters, guttersnipe, integrities, interesting, outsteering, oversetting, poltergeist, shergottite, strategized, strategizes, streetlight, teethridges, tetralogies, yesternight. | |
+4 letters: antiestrogen, bespattering, disintegrate, geostrategic, grittinesses, guttersnipes, interrogates, intersecting, intersegment, overtightens, pettifoggers, poltergeists, reestimating, regurgitates, reintegrates, renegotiates, shergottites, somersetting, stereotyping, straightedge, straightened, straightener, streetlights, telegraphist, teratologies, tergiversate, trendsetting, vinaigrettes, yesternights. | |
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