"catherinette" meaning in All languages combined

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        {
          "ref": "1980, Robert Doisneau, Photographs, page 16",
          "text": "And then again, on 25 November, Saint Catherine's Day (Saint Catherine is of course the patron saint of unmarried women), the done thing was to get hold of a catherinette, an unmarried girl of twenty-five or over, to drag her of to the rue de Cléry, to borrow a stepladder from the bistro opposite the statuse of Saint Catherine (they were quite used to lending it!), and get the girl to climb up and offer the statue a bunch of flowers you'd thoughtfully bought beforehand, giggling the while.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Christa Hämmerle, Plurality and individuality",
          "text": "If no marriage had been concluded by the age of twenty-five, the young woman became a \"catherinette\" and soon a spinster.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Ruth Reichl, Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet",
          "text": "Obviously a girl can be a catherinette only once in her lifetime; it's always beautiful and a little sad, like one's first love.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2017, Masha Belenky, Kathryn Kleppinger, Anne O’Neil-Henry, French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century, page 121",
          "text": "The card thus presents a conundrum: is she a modiste making her way in the world of work through the needle trades, or is she a catherinette, whose principal ambition is to wed?",
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        "a girl of 25 years old who is unmarried by St Catherine's Day (25th November)"
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        "a girl of 25 years old who is unmarried by St Catherine's Day (25th November)"
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