- of the
dusky grisettes who sold love as well as
flowers on the
streets of New Orleans. In 1730,
Jonathan Swift was
already using "
grisette" in English...
- The word
grisette may mean:
Grisette (person), a working-class woman,
originally French, or later, good-time girl
Grisette (beer), a
variety of beer from...
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Cancan section from the
overture to Orphée aux
enfers (1:46)
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unlike those beers,
which were
prevalent among agricultural workers,
grisettes were
consumed primarily by miners. The name,
which means "little grey...
- gloiocephalus,
commonly known as the big
sheath mushroom, rose-gilled
grisette, or
stubble rosegill, is a
species of
mushroom in the
family Pluteaceae...
-
Amanita fulva,
commonly called the
tawny grisette or the orange-brown
ringless amanita, is a
basidiomycete mushroom of the
genus Amanita. It is
found frequently...
- prostitute. They
stood between the kept
women (courtesans) and the
grisettes. A
grisette had
other employment and
worked part-time as a
prostitute whereas...
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named Jean Valjean, who
could accomplish it.
Years earlier in Paris, a
grisette named Fantine was very much in love with Félix Tholomyès. His friends,...
- Tennessee, the
third child of
Dorothy Harris (née Billingslea) and
Powell Grisette Potts. She has two
older sisters. They grew up in Franklin, Kentucky, where...
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usually grey. This gave them the name of
grisettes. "Gris" or grey also
meant drunk, and the name "
grisette" was also
given to the
lower class of Parisian...
