grisette – English noun declension

English noun forms of grisette

Noun: grisette
Singulargrisette
Pluralgrisettes

Sample Sentences

  • ‘What a fuss is here, indeed, about a little grisette: why, one would think Beresford had carried off an heiress.’ [1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 263:]
  • The anticipations of the shopkeeper were realized, and his rooms soon became notorious through the charms of the sprightly grisette. [1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt:]
  • […]Paris from afar sounded its fanfare of masked balls with the laugh of grisettes. [1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter VI, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners […], London: Vizetelly & Co., […], →OCLC, part II, page 129:]
  • 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. [1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1015:]
  • Oral accounts of those who remember the old grisettes say they were low-alcohol, light-bodied, saison-like golden ales of no great distinction. [2004, Phil Markowski, Farmhouse Ales: Culture and Craftsmanship in the European Tradition, Brewers Publications, →ISBN:]
  • She talked animatedly, with her hands, and her excitement about something as boring as the differences between a saison and a grisette was contagious. [2018, Suzanne Baltsar, Trouble Brewing, Gallery Books, →ISBN, pages 20–21:]
  • 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. [2019, Douglas Trattner, Moon Cleveland, Avalon Travel, →ISBN:]

Etymology

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