Grisette

Paris student, than any with which a foreigner could furnish him: the grisette is his heroine; and dear old Béranger, the cynic-epicurean, has celebrated him and her in the most delightful verses in the world. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The grisette is the Andalouse of Paris; she possesses the talent of being able to pass through the mire of Lutetia on tiptoe, like a dancer who studies her steps, without soiling her white stockings with a single speck of mud. ❋ Jules Sandeau (1847)

The grisette is a gay, chattering bird, which at fifteen escapes from the nest never to return; it is not her custom to drag about a mother after her, this is the special mania of actresses who resort to all sorts of tricks ignored by the proud and independent grisette. ❋ Jules Sandeau (1847)

This passage, with which we have taken some liberties, will give the reader a more lively idea of the reckless, jovial, turbulent Paris student, than any with which a foreigner could furnish him: the grisette is his heroine; and dear old Béranger, the cynic-epicurean, has celebrated him and her in the most delightful verses in the world. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

Monsieur Dorlange has given me in my bust the air of a grisette, which is not true at all. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

The very terms "grisette" and "lorette" by which young women unblest with wealth or social rank are commonly designated, involve the idea of demoralization -- no man would apply them to one whom he respected and of whose good opinion he was solicitous. ❋ Horace Greeley (1841)

Higher than a street prostitute or a fille libre but lower than the legendary grandes horizontales , lionesses and amazons , Chanel was a grisette , "the young milliner, glover or seamstress . . . who often took lovers to boost their pitiful earnings." ❋ Laura Jacobs (2011)

A face that must have once had the graceful, delicate beauty of a grisette, with "a youthful glow" that passes quickly, but which still retained her extremely pretty, cheerful, kindly, heart - shaped mouth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The first grisette who had said to him: “You are handsome!” had cast the stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He is an honorable idler who lounges, who practises country jaunts, who cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It places the grisette on the throne, as Rome placed the courtesan there; and, taking it altogether, if ❋ Unknown (2008)

The young girl watched her cousin as he cut his sippets, with as much pleasure as a grisette takes in a melodrama where innocence and virtue triumph. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She can still bring tears to the eyes of a youthful lover, for her age is whatever she pleases, and she has the exquisite self-devotion of a grisette. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Diane chose her gown and got through her dressing with the alacrity of a grisette who is her own waiting-woman. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“As to flirt with a little grisette, my dear creature?” said the Major. ❋ Unknown (2006)

‘And fancy, what she has to be conceited about, avec sa mine de grisette!’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

English; asked how I had learned to speak it so well; then they inquired what I knew besides — what books I had read; soon they seemed to make a sort of wonder of me, considering me no doubt as a learned grisette. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Hunsden no doubt regarded me as a rash, imprudent man, thus to show my poor little grisette sweetheart, in her poor little unfurnished grenier; but he prepared to act the real gentleman, having, in fact, the kernel of that character, under the harsh husk it pleased him to wear by way of mental mackintosh. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Rosalie — a smart French grisette — looked up from her work with a knowing smile, precisely the sort of smile I had been so desirous to avoid exciting. ❋ Unknown (2006)

[Dang], that was a Grisette! ❋ Paul Macon (2006)

Rhonda couldn't make her rent payment with her [earnings] from her waitress job so she earned extra cash by [turning tricks] after hours with men she would wait on at the restaurant. Before leaving the house to meet the [evening's] Johns she made sure she had her Grisette Hanky in her purse. It was stuck to the side of her bag still moist from the evenings prior encounters. ❋ Eaton Holgoode (2014)