grisettish

With the grisette, to whom he did much to give a niche (one can hardly call it a shrine) in literature, whom he celebrated so lovingly, and whose gradual disappearance he has so touchingly bewailed, or with any feminine person of partly grisettish kind, such as the curious and already briefly mentioned heroine of _Une Gaillarde_, [53] he is almost invariably happy.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889