grisette

Plural: grisettes

Noun

• A young French working-class woman, often a seamstress.
• A (chiefly French) girl or young married woman of the lower class; especially, a young working-class woman of perceived easy morals.
• The grisette amanita (Amanita vaginata), an edible mushroom in the amanita family.
• A variety of low-alcohol beer that is light in body, with a noticeable tartness similar to other farmhouse ales.

Examples

• She imagined a grisette pondering her next move on a dusty Paris Scrabble board.