Nadine at Dour had been neat; Hélène at Carlepont had been companionable; the pretty midinette at Maast had been friendly and not over-dirty. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
The little midinette thrown out of employment, the shopkeeper faced with ruin, the artist reduced to actual want -- they also are in the fighting line, and they are proud of it. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915] Reference
She looked to him very un-American, more like a Spaniard or a French midinette. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California] Reference
Desnoyers knew all about his relations (so far honorable) with a midinette from the rue Taitbout. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan.] Reference
She too was of her race, alert, vivacious, and as neat as a trivet, as became a former midinette of the rue de la Paix and a daughter of. From Wordnik.com. [The Dust Flower] Reference
For the moment, discounting the uniform which might have hidden a midinette or a duchess, she had nothing but the face and the gestures and the beautifully modulated voice to go upon, and between the accent of the midinette and the duchess -- both being equally charming to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road] Reference
Chabanais, of one of the two "mysterious" midinette speak-easys in the dark Rue de Berlin (where the midinettes range from the tender age of forty-five to fifty), of the cellar of the tavern near the Panthéon with its tawdry wenches and beer and butt-soaked floors -- of tawdry resorts and tawdrier peoples. From Wordnik.com. [Europe After 8:15] Reference
Only a man who knew Paris well could detect a difference in the early morning crowds -- the absence of many young porters who used to carry great loads on their heads before quenching their thirst at the Chien Qui Fume, and the presence of many young girls of the midinette class, who in normal times lie later in bed before taking the metro to their shops. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the War] Reference
The enterprise of taking possession of all this, which is so difficult, so stubborn, is what gives its value to the gaze far more than its merely physical beauty (which may serve to explain why the same young man can awaken a whole romance in the imagination of a woman who has heard somebody say that he is the Prince of Wales, whereas she pays no more attention to him after learning that she is mistaken); to find the midinette in the house of assignation is to find her emptied of that unknown life which permeates her and which we aspire to possess with her, it is to approach a pair of eyes that have indeed become mere precious stones, a nose whose quivering is as devoid of meaning as that of a flower. From Wordnik.com. [The Captive] Reference
France "was an article of faith which comforted the soul of the little midinette who sang on her way to the Rue Lafayette, and the French soldier who found a wild flower growing in his trench. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the War] Reference
In our times she would be styled "a midinette.". From Wordnik.com. [George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings] Reference
No, that unknown midinette who was passing at that moment, it seemed to me as indispensable, if I wished to continue to believe in her reality, to test her resistance by adapting my behaviour to it, challenging a rebuff, returning to the charge, obtaining an assignation, waiting for her as she came away from her work, getting to know, episode by episode, all that composed the girl’s life, traversing the space that, for her, enveloped the pleasure which I was seeking, and the distance which her different habits, her special mode of life, set between me and the attention, the favour which I wished to attain and capture, as making a long journey in the train if I wished to believe in the reality of Venice which I should see and which would not be merely. From Wordnik.com. [The Captive] Reference
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