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- Middle French · borrowed fromFilles du Roy
- English todayFilles du Roy
From Middle French Filles du Roy.
Words from the same roots
Middle FrenchFilles du Roy all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Filles du Roy
Today it means: A non-religious program composed of orphaned girls of France shipped to New France to populate French North America with Frenchmen, by providing wives to the bachelor colonial French traders. Full definition →
Middle French Filles du Roy