- 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...
-
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...
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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...
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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,...
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Grisette Mountain is a 2,620-metre (8,600 ft)
mountain summit located in
Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. It is
located in the
Colin Range, which...
- prostitute. They
stood between the kept
women (courtesans) and the
grisettes. A
grisette had
other employment and
worked part-time as a
prostitute whereas...
- gloiocephalus,
commonly known as the big
sheath mushroom, rose-gilled
grisette, or
stubble rosegill, is a
species of
mushroom in the
family Pluteaceae...
- Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be
worth living. But so long as
there are
grisettes, well and good!" At a Workers'
Union meeting in Brussels, Engels's friend...
