"Filles du Roy" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

Etymology: Middle French Filles du Roy Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|Filles du Roy}} Middle French Filles du Roy Head templates: {{en-proper-noun|nolinkhead=1}} Filles du Roy
  1. 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. Synonyms: King's Daughters, Filles du Roi Translations (program composed of orphaned girls): Filles du Roi (French), Filles du Roy (Middle French)

Proper name [Middle French]

Etymology: fille (“girl, daughter”) + roy (“king”) Etymology templates: {{compound|frm|fille|roy|gloss1=girl, daughter|gloss2=king}} fille (“girl, daughter”) + roy (“king”) Head templates: {{head|frm|proper noun}} Filles du Roy
  1. Filles du Roy
    Sense id: en-Filles_du_Roy-frm-name-UVP3JCSN Categories (other): Middle French entries with incorrect language header

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