Merveilleuse

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noun historical A fashionable young Frenchwoman of the late 18th-century, characterized by extravagant dress sense and anti-revolutionary ideas.

From French Merveilleuse.

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Two years later, you might like to write different words to your “Merveilleuse Maman” (who knows?)

acrostiche - French Word-A-Day 2010
Two years later, you might like to write different words to your “Merveilleuse Maman” who knows?

acrostiche - French Word-A-Day 2010
The first task the hero is put to when he enters hell -- directing the hauling of logs for fuel -- seems more appropriate than that of draining two ponds, which the hero is obliged to perform in Cosquin's "La Baguette Merveilleuse," No. LXXV.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
= Merveilleuse = [_Mair. vay.´uze_], the sword of Doolin of Mayence.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853