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‖ fille de joie|fij də ʒwa| [Fr.] A prostitute.
1705[see entre nous]. 1755C. Charke Life 135 At this Time, my Lord kept in the House with him a Fille de Joye. 1867‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags II. ii. 31 The grisette charms of little tobacconists, milliners,..bonbon-sellers and filles de joie. 1901A. E. Taylor Probl. Conduct iv. 212 The mere purposelessness and joylessness of the routine life led by the professional ‘fille de joie’. 1964C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. iii. 92 That production in which the four filles de joie were played by Jean MacKinlay, [etc.]. 1970Daily Tel. 8 Oct. 16/2 A string of odious street pick-ups when she embarks finally and inevitably on the career of a fille de joie. |