Meaning of grisette | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A (chiefly French) girl or young married woman of the lower class; especially, a young working-class woman of perceived easy morals.
2. The grisette amanita (Amanita vaginata), an edible mushroom in the amanita family.
3. A variety of low-alcohol beer that is light in body, with a noticeable tartness similar to other farmhouse ales.

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Examples

“‘What a fuss is here, indeed, about a little grisette: why, one would think⟳ Beresford had carried off an heiress.’”

“The anticipations of the shopkeeper were realized, and his rooms soon became notorious through the charms of the sprightly grisette.”

“[…]Paris from afar sounded its fanfare of masked balls with the laugh⟳ of grisettes.”

“he enjoyed the immense luxury not only of lovemaking but also of sleeping and drowsing beside this gentle and composed and somewhat melancholy woman, who was not a fille de joie in the professional sense⟳ but more like⟳ a grisette.”

“Oral accounts of those who remember⟳ the old grisettes say⟳ they were low-alcohol, light-bodied, saison-like golden ales of no great distinction.”

“She talked animatedly, with her hands, and her excitement about something as boring as the differences between a saison and a grisette was contagious.”

“Largely grounded in European classics, the ever-changing roster of taps cycles through grisettes, altbiers, kölsches, and saisons, but also trots out “beastly” concoctions like⟳ Imperial IPAs as well.”

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