grisette

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English

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La Grisette (sense 1) by Constantin Guys
Grisette (sense 3) Blond beer bottle, by St-Feuillien
A grisette (Amanita vaginata, sense 2) near Biggesee, Sauerland, Germany

Etymology

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Borrowed from French grisette, from gris (grey) +‎ -ette, named after the color of the fabric associated with low value or bad quality.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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grisette (plural grisettes)

  1. A (chiefly French) girl or young married woman of the lower class; especially, a young working-class woman of perceived easy morals.
    Alternative form: grizette
    • 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 263:
      ‘What a fuss is here, indeed, about a little grisette: why, one would think Beresford had carried off an heiress.’
    • 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt:
      The anticipations of the shopkeeper were realized, and his rooms soon became notorious through the charms of the sprightly grisette.
    • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1015:
      he enjoyed the immense luxury not only of lovemaking but also of sleeping and drowsing beside this gentle and composed and somewhat melancholy woman, who was not a fille de joie in the professional sense but more like a grisette.
  2. The grisette amanita (Amanita vaginata), an edible mushroom in the amanita family.
  3. A variety of low-alcohol beer that is light in body, with a noticeable tartness similar to other farmhouse ales.
    • 2004, Phil Markowski, Farmhouse Ales: Culture and Craftsmanship in the European Tradition, Brewers Publications, →ISBN:
      Oral accounts of those who remember the old grisettes say they were low-alcohol, light-bodied, saison-like golden ales of no great distinction.
    • 2018, Suzanne Baltsar, Trouble Brewing, Gallery Books, →ISBN, pages 20–21:
      She talked animatedly, with her hands, and her excitement about something as boring as the differences between a saison and a grisette was contagious.
    • 2019, Douglas Trattner, Moon Cleveland, Avalon Travel, →ISBN:
      Largely grounded in European classics, the ever-changing roster of taps cycles through grisettes, altbiers, kölsches, and saisons, but also trots out “beastly” concoctions like Imperial IPAs as well.

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French

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Etymology

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From gris (grey) +‎ -ette.

Noun

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grisette f (plural grisettes)

  1. (obsolete) A cheap grey fabric.
  2. grisette (working class woman)
  3. grisette (mushroom)
    Synonym: amanite vaginée
  4. skipper (butterfly in the family Hesperiidae)
  5. Gafrarium pectinatum, an edible Venus clam of the Pacific.
  6. A type of bonbon made from honey and licorice.

Descendants

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  • English: grisette, grizette
  • German: Grisette

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