noun. A French working-class girl or young woman.

noun. Originally, a sort of gray woolen fabric, much used for dresses by women of the lower classes in France: so called from its gray color. Hence —2. A young woman of the working class; especially, a young woman employed as a shopgirl, a sewing girl, or a chambermaid: commonly applied by foreigners in Paris to the young women of this class who are free in their manners on the streets or in the shops.

noun. The noctuid moth Acronycta strigosa: an English collectors' name.

noun. A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry.

noun. A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; especially, a young working-class woman of perceived easy morals.

"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."

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