filleule

a visitor at M.dame Beck's, and of whom I had been vaguely told that she was a "filleule," or god-daughter, of M. Emanuel's, and that between her mother, or aunt, or some other female relation of hers, and the Professor, had existed of old a special friendship.

Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

Also: filleule = goddaughter filleul de guerre = adoptive son (in wartime)

Savoir Vivre 2010

Also: filleule = goddaughter filleul de guerre = adoptive son (in wartime)

Traditions 2008

Also: filleule = goddaughter filleul de guerre = adoptive son (in wartime)

Culture 2006

When my filleule first drove into Dayton she had some singularly audacious ideas of her own.

Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

'If we have missed an early apprenticeship to the habit of self-command, ma filleule.'

The Gentleman of Fifty George Meredith 1868

When my filleule first drove into Dayton she had some singularly audacious ideas of her own.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

When my filleule first drove into Dayton she had some singularly audacious ideas of her own.

The Gentleman of Fifty George Meredith 1868

'If we have missed an early apprenticeship to the habit of self-command, ma filleule.'

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

'If we have missed an early apprenticeship to the habit of self-command, ma filleule.'

Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868