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yé-yé, a. (n.)|jeje| Also Ye-Ye. [a. Fr., tr. of yeah-yeah, redupl. of yeah adv.; the form yeah-yeah freq. occurred in Eng. popular songs of the 1960s.] Designating or pertaining to the modern style of music, dress, etc., associated with France in the 1960s. Also applied to persons. Occas. as n.
1960Daily Tel. 24 Oct. 9/3, I found one dramatically yé-yé shop in old Lyons..which sells only British goods of a somewhat bizarre kind. 1966Guardian 1 Apr. 10/7 In Paris, clothes are still a lot more class-divisive with Ye-Ye girls and debutantes thoroughly opposed. Ibid. 7 Apr. 8 Paris once had twenty music halls; now it has two—the Olympia, which caters more for yé-yé singers, and Bobino. Ibid., The Bobino..is no place for yé-yés. 1967Sat. Rev. 4 Mar. 49 Amplified like yé-yé music. 1968N.Y. Times 3 July 30 The orchestra Chez Régine will play anything ‘from yé-yé to regular music’. Ibid. 23 July 42 The name of a high-priced haute couture boutique here, run by Arlette Nastat, a forever yé-yé designer. 1972M. Goldberg Karamanov Equations xvii. 161 He sipped a coffee and a Cinzano..watching the mini⁓skirted yé-yé girls and their hairy escorts parading by. 1979J. Wyllie To catch Viper viii. 49 Coca-Cola signs and bars, fashionable young women in miniskirts and teen-age yé-yé boys. |