grisette

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grisette

/ɡɹɪˈzɛt/ UK

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Borrowed from French grisette, from gris (“grey”) + -ette, named after the color of the fabric associated with low value or bad quality.

noun grisettes

A (chiefly French) girl or young married woman of the lower class; especially, a young working-class woman of perceived easy morals. ‘What a fuss is here, indeed, about a little grisette: why, one would think Beresford had carried off an heiress.’
The grisette amanita (Amanita vaginata), an edible mushroom in the amanita family.
A variety of low-alcohol beer that is light in body, with a noticeable tartness similar to other farmhouse ales. Oral accounts of those who remember the old grisettes say they were low-alcohol, light-bodied, saison-like golden ales of no great distinction.

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@misc{grisette_2026,
  title = {grisette},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/grisette},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}