Midinette
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"Cette promotion des préoccupations personnelles à la dignité de problèmes philosophiques risque trop d'aboutir à une sorte de métaphysique pour midinette, excusable au titre de procédé didactique , mais fort dangereuse si elle doit ..."--Tristes Tropiques (1955) by Claude Lévi-Strauss |
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A midinette is French for:
- A female salesperson, a shopgirl, especially in Paris.
- A vacuous but fashionable young woman.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 611:
- This? One finds them in every other midinette’s haunt, literally for sous.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 611:
- A type of miniature climbing rose.
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See also
- Midinette
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