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French
Pronunciation
Noun
jeune fille f (plural jeunes filles)
- a girl; a maiden (unmarried woman/girl)
Derived terms
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French jeune fille.
Noun
jeune fille f (invariable)
- jeune fille; maiden
2020 October 10, Simonetta Fiori, “Giulia, l'amore e l'accusa di essere un "mascalzone". Le "Lettere" mai viste di Gramsci [Julia, love and the accusation of being a "scoundrel". The never-before-seen "Letters" of Gramsci]”, in la Repubblica:In primo piano è la moglie Julka, la più bella tra le figlie di Apollon Schucht, la jeune fille dall'ovale perfetto e dallo sguardo bizantino che Gramsci conosce per caso nel 1922, in Russia, nel sanatorio della Foresta d'argento: là era ricoverata anche Genia, la sorella maggiore invaghita del rivoluzionario sardo che mai avrebbe perdonato a entrambi la fuga sentimentale.- In the foreground is the wife Julka, the most beautiful of Apollon Schucht's daughters, the maiden with a perfect oval face and a byzantine gaze that Gramsci met by chance in 1922, in Russia, in the sanatorium of the Silver Forest: there Genia, the elder sister in love with the Sardinian revolutionary who would never have forgiven either of them for their sentimental escape, was also hospitalized.
Usage notes
- This is a foreign term not fully naturalized in Italian and is sometimes italicized.