Parisienne

See also: parisienne

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French Parisienne, feminine of Parisien, from Paris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəɹɪzɪˈɛn/

Noun

Parisienne (plural Parisiennes)

1. A woman from Paris.
   • 1900, translated from Honoré de Balzac's The Works of Honoré de Balzac, page 157:

     It is so natural to a Parisienne, even when passion has almost mastered her, to hesitate and pause before taking the plunge.

   • 2001, Lisa Tierstan, Marianne in the Market, California, page 122:

     Proclaiming taste to be a learned as much as an inborn trait, they sought to establish themselves as aesthetic educators of the vulnerable, unschooled Parisienne.

Related terms

• Parisien

Translations

woman from Paris

• Arabic: بَارِيسِيَّة f (bārīsiyya)
• Breton: Parizianez (br) f
• Dutch: Parijse (nl) f, Parisienne (nl) f
• Esperanto: parizanino
• Finnish: pariisitar (fi)
• French: Parisienne (fr) f
• German: Pariserin (de) f
• Japanese: パリジェンヌ (parijennu)

French

Etymology

From Paris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁi.zjɛn/

Noun

Parisienne f (plural Parisiennes)

1. Parisienne

Related terms

• Paris
• Parisien
• parisien / parisienne
• parisianisme