Further to Grisetto -- trust the French to go academic over this:
The word "grisette" (sometimes misspelt "grizette") refers to a French working-class woman in the Belle Époque. It derives from "gris" (French for grey -- cfr. the aristocratic English surname, Grice)."
The 1694 edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française defines "grisette"
"a woman of lowly condition"
albeit in French. By the 1835 edition of the dictionary, her status had risen somewhat. She was described as:
"a woman who is coquettish and flirtatious."
-- with Russellian logical forms, that is.
Anyway. Later.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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