catherinette
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catherinette¹
noun catherinettes
- Alternative form of Catherinette And then again, on 25 November, Saint Catherine's Day (Saint Catherine is of course the patron saint of unmarried women), the done thing was to get hold of a catherinette, an unmarried girl of twenty-five or over, to drag her of to the rue de Cléry, to borrow a stepladder from the bistro opposite th
Catherinette²
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From the French.
noun Catherinettes
- An unmarried woman over the age of 25 who lives in a country that celebrates the festival of Saint Catherine's Day for such women. Every Catherinette has received, by the first post, a Valentine card, with midget mob-cap and the pretty, doleful ribbons stuck on.
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