Parisien

plural Parisiens

1. A surname from French.

plural Parisiens

1. uncommonUncommon spelling of Parisian.

   It was the old Paris, the Paris of the Revolutions, with its multiplicity of little streets and small squares, its lively Parisiens and Parisiennes.

   1953, Leon Edel, Henry James: The Untried Years, 1843-1870, Philadlephia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, page 129

   5 more examples

   The next day being Sunday, Wobble gave an exhibition performance on his bicycle in the Jardin d’Acclimatation, in accordance with a special request from the managers of that popular institution. Thousands of Parisiens and Parisiennes flocked there to see it, and they applauded avec beaucoup d’enthusiasme.

   1890 May, E[dwin] R[alph] Collins, Wobbles’ Tour Around the World on a Bicycle (The Fireside Series; 109), New York, N.Y.: J[ohn] S[tuart] Ogilvie, […], page 69

   […] while the merry-go-rounds, toy-stalls and gingerbread kiosks, beloved of little Parisiens and Parisiennes, must have been swept away in dozens.

   1910 February 4, “The Floods in Paris”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XCIV, number 2217, Shanghai, page 241, column 1

   Rather, it is transmitted by him, for it came originally, so we learn, from a young boy of a French lieutenant, home on leave, and smiling with dreamy happiness over a café-table at the endless procession of clean, neatly drest Parisiens and Parisiennes passing by on the other side.

   1915 November 20, “Personal Glimpses: A Scheherezade Tale of the War”, in The Literary Digest, volume LI, number 21 (whole 1335), New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls Company, […], page 1164, column 2

   “Some time after midnight,” he went to the Seine because he wanted to see it before the floods abated. The following morning he rubbed shoulders with Parisiens and Parisiennes of all kinds, shapes and sizes as he went about in the pouring rain “to do some shopping.”

   1924 January 21, “L’Ambassadeur Bienvenu”, in Time: The Weekly News-Magazine, volume III, number 3, New York, N.Y.: TIME, Incorporated, page 11, column 1

   The Parisiens and Parisiennes seemed to have adopted the war like a new craze. Women dressed themselves in artistic caricatures of military uniforms, soldiers were admitted half-price to the cinemas, those wearing the distinctive badge of the Maginot Line were heroes.

   1943, William Simpson, One of Our Pilots Is Safe, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, page 20