The story
- French · borrowed fromgrisette
- English todaygrisette
Borrowed from French grisette, from gris (“grey”) + -ette, named after the color of the fabric associated with low value or bad quality.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
grisette
Today it means: A (chiefly French) girl or young married woman of the lower class; especially, a young working-class woman of perceived easy morals. Full definition →
French grisette