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• A gay young Frenchwoman of the lower class.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

• n. [French] Wife or daughter of a tradesman;—in Paris, a flower girl, milliner, or shop girl, who lives, but is not kept, as a mistress—chiefly with clerks and students.

1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language