fille de joie

[ fee-yuh duh zhwah ]

noun

, French.

, plural filles de joie [fee-y, uh, d, uh, , zhwah].

1. a prostitute (used as a euphemism).

fille de joie

/ fij də ʒwa /

noun

1. a prostitute

Word History and Origins

Origin of fille de joie¹

Literally, “pleasure girl”

Word History and Origins

Origin of fille de joie¹

girl of pleasure

Example Sentences

This almost terrified Firmian; he said that if he couldn't hit anything himself he would accept only the head of this pig--this polypus in the heart of the Babylonian fille de joie.

From Project Gutenberg

Lulu Belle�Flamboyant black and white melodrama, with Lenore Ulric as a dusky fille de joie.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stevenson in the very deeps of that dishonourable traffic had realized as much and likened himself to a fille de joie, and Haggard, of the same school and period, had abandoned blood and thunder at the climax of his success for the honest study of agricultural conditions.

From Project Gutenberg

Even in the least pardonable of light loves he demands this tenderness—demands it from some poor "fille de joie" with the same sort of tearful craving with which he demands it from the Mother of God.

From Project Gutenberg

They never knew him drunk, they never heard him swear, they never found him unjust, even to a poverty-stricken indigène, or brutal, even to a fille de joie.

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