grisette
Parisian working-class girl
A grisette is a young French working-class woman, especially one employed in a trade like dressmaking or millinery in 18th- and 19th-century Paris.
The term carried connotations of flirtatiousness and sexual availability, appearing frequently in French literature as a stock character—the charming shop girl who might become an artist's mistress.
Grisette also names a style of light, tart Belgian wheat beer, and a species of edible mushroom.
Teasing, insincere charmer
- soubrettePert stage servant role
- ingenueArtless young woman
- demimondeSocially marginal class
- museThink deeply about
laundress · seamstress · shopgirl · flirtatious · charming · gaiety · vivacity · innocence
The eighteen hundreds
- ParisianOf France's capital
- working-classManual laborers as group
- seamstressOne who stitches garments
- laundressWoman who washes clothes
milliner · tenement · industrialization · urbanization · laborer · artisan · proletariat · bourgeoisie
Feminine nickname or diminutive
- bohemianArtistic nonconformist type
- La BohèmePuccini's garret-set tragedy
- PucciniItalian operatic composer
- romanticismEmotional, imaginative worldview
garret · Latin Quarter · Montmartre · poverty · consumption · tuberculosis · courtship · tragedy
coquette
Teasing, insincere charmer
muse · laundress · seamstress · shopgirl · flirtatious · charming · gaiety · vivacity · innocence · modesty
19th-century
The eighteen hundreds
- ParisianOf France's capital
- working-classManual laborers as group
- seamstressOne who stitches garments
laundress · milliner · tenement · industrialization · urbanization · laborer · artisan · proletariat · bourgeoisie · Restoration
Mimi
Feminine nickname or diminutive
- bohemianArtistic nonconformist type
- La BohèmePuccini's garret-set tragedy
- PucciniItalian operatic composer
romanticism · garret · Latin Quarter · Montmartre · poverty · consumption · tuberculosis · courtship · tragedy · sentimentality
Amanita
Poisonous fungus genus
cap · gills · stem · ring · woodland · culinary · French · delicacy · sauté · chanterelle
fabric
Woven or knit material
wool · blend · homespun · cloth · dress · apron · cap · simple · plain · unbleached
grisettebourgeoise
Middle-class woman
grande dame · aristocrat · noblewoman · duchess · countess