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  • noun Plural form of midinette.

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Examples

  • Non je ne critique pas en l'air puisque je l'ai lu et comme je suis un peu maso je vais meme acheter le deuxieme volume en esperant peut-etre une evolution quelque part qui le ferait sortir de l'option "gros bouquin pour midinettes"!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2009

  • Venice, from travelling, at least I might in the meantime, had I been alone, have made the acquaintance of the young midinettes scattered about in the sunlight of this fine Sunday, in the sum total of whose beauty I gave a considerable place to the unknown life that animated them.

    The Captive 2003

  • I reflected that on a Sunday afternoon like this little shopgirls, midinettes, prostitutes must be strolling in the Bois.

    The Captive 2003

  • Also the business manager, the buyers, the accountants, the secretaries, the tailors and cutters, the head fitters, the first and second sewing hands, the midinettes, the stock girls and so on, down to the delivery boys.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • Also the business manager, the buyers, the accountants, the secretaries, the tailors and cutters, the head fitters, the first and second sewing hands, the midinettes, the stock girls and so on, down to the delivery boys.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • Also the business manager, the buyers, the accountants, the secretaries, the tailors and cutters, the head fitters, the first and second sewing hands, the midinettes, the stock girls and so on, down to the delivery boys.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • Also the business manager, the buyers, the accountants, the secretaries, the tailors and cutters, the head fitters, the first and second sewing hands, the midinettes, the stock girls and so on, down to the delivery boys.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • Also the business manager, the buyers, the accountants, the secretaries, the tailors and cutters, the head fitters, the first and second sewing hands, the midinettes, the stock girls and so on, down to the delivery boys.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • Also the business manager, the buyers, the accountants, the secretaries, the tailors and cutters, the head fitters, the first and second sewing hands, the midinettes, the stock girls and so on, down to the delivery boys.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • Elegant women whose beauty is known in Paris salons, whose frivolity, perhaps, in the past was the main purpose of their life, were now on a level with the peasant mothers of the French suburbs and with the midinettes of Montmartre, and their courage did not fail them so quickly.

    The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various

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