grisette

plural grisettes

1. A (chiefly French) girl or young married woman of the lower class; especially, a young working-class woman of perceived easy morals.

   […]Paris from afar sounded its fanfare of masked balls with the laugh of grisettes.

   1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter VI, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners […], London: Vizetelly & Co., […], →OCLC, part II, page 129

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   ‘What a fuss is here, indeed, about a little grisette: why, one would think Beresford had carried off an heiress.’

   1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 263

   The anticipations of the shopkeeper were realized, and his rooms soon became notorious through the charms of the sprightly grisette.

   1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

   he enjoyed the immense luxury not only of lovemaking but also of sleeping and drowsing beside this gentle and composed and somewhat melancholy woman, who was not a fille de joie in the professional sense but more like a grisette.

   1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1015

2. The grisette amanita (Amanita vaginata), an edible mushroom in the amanita family.
3. A variety of low-alcohol beer that is light in body, with a noticeable tartness similar to other farmhouse ales.

   Oral accounts of those who remember the old grisettes say they were low-alcohol, light-bodied, saison-like golden ales of no great distinction.

   2004, Phil Markowski, Farmhouse Ales: Culture and Craftsmanship in the European Tradition, Brewers Publications, →ISBN

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   She talked animatedly, with her hands, and her excitement about something as boring as the differences between a saison and a grisette was contagious.

   2018, Suzanne Baltsar, Trouble Brewing, Gallery Books, →ISBN, pages 20–21

   Largely grounded in European classics, the ever-changing roster of taps cycles through grisettes, altbiers, kölsches, and saisons, but also trots out “beastly” concoctions like Imperial IPAs as well.

   2019, Douglas Trattner, Moon Cleveland, Avalon Travel, →ISBN