"lorette" meaning in French

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Noun

IPA: /lɔ.ʁɛt/ Forms: lorettes [plural]
Etymology: Named after the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette district of Paris. Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} lorette f (plural lorettes)
  1. (archaic) loose woman, lorette Wikipedia link: Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Paris Tags: archaic, feminine
    Sense id: en-lorette-fr-noun-8w6uYTK9 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Named after the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette district of Paris.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lorettes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "lorette f (plural lorettes)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "In those days, her kind in Paris, considering that the pretty name of ‘lorette’, which literature had given them and which was immortalised by Gavarni, was not serious enough, had started calling themselves ‘panthers’, in the Oriental style.",
          "ref": "1874, Barbey d'Aurevilly, “La Vengeance d'une femme”, in Les Diaboliques",
          "text": "En ce temps-là, ses pareilles à Paris, qui ne trouvaient pas assez sérieux le joli nom de « lorettes » que la littérature leur avait donné et qu’a immortalisé Gavarni, se faisaient appeler orientalement des « panthères ».",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1958, Simone de Beauvoir, Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée",
          "text": "On les approuvait de s’amuser avec des filles de petite condition : lorettes, grisettes, midinettes, cousettes […]\nWe gave them permission to amuse themselves with girls of low morals – lorettes, grisettes, shop-girls, seamstresses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "loose woman, lorette"
      ],
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        ],
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          "lorette",
          "lorette#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "(archaic) loose woman, lorette"
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "feminine"
      ],
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        "Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Paris"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lɔ.ʁɛt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lorette"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Named after the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette district of Paris.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lorettes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "lorette f (plural lorettes)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
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        "French countable nouns",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French feminine nouns",
        "French lemmas",
        "French nouns",
        "French terms derived from toponyms",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with archaic senses",
        "French terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "In those days, her kind in Paris, considering that the pretty name of ‘lorette’, which literature had given them and which was immortalised by Gavarni, was not serious enough, had started calling themselves ‘panthers’, in the Oriental style.",
          "ref": "1874, Barbey d'Aurevilly, “La Vengeance d'une femme”, in Les Diaboliques",
          "text": "En ce temps-là, ses pareilles à Paris, qui ne trouvaient pas assez sérieux le joli nom de « lorettes » que la littérature leur avait donné et qu’a immortalisé Gavarni, se faisaient appeler orientalement des « panthères ».",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1958, Simone de Beauvoir, Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée",
          "text": "On les approuvait de s’amuser avec des filles de petite condition : lorettes, grisettes, midinettes, cousettes […]\nWe gave them permission to amuse themselves with girls of low morals – lorettes, grisettes, shop-girls, seamstresses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        ]
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      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/lɔ.ʁɛt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lorette"
}

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