Parisienne

Borrowed from French Parisienne, feminine of Parisien, from Paris.

• IPA^(key): /pəɹɪzɪˈɛn/

Parisienne (plural Parisiennes)

1. A woman from Paris.
   • 1900, translated from Honoré de Balzac's The Works of Honoré de Balzac, page 157:

     It is so natural to a Parisienne, even when passion has almost mastered her, to hesitate and pause before taking the plunge.

   • 2001, Lisa Tierstan, Marianne in the Market (California 2001), page 122:

     Proclaiming taste to be a learned as much as an inborn trait, they sought to establish themselves as aesthetic educators of the vulnerable, unschooled Parisienne.

From Paris.

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁi.zjɛn/

Parisienne f (plural Parisiennes)

1. Parisienne

• Paris
• Parisien
• parisien / parisienne
• parisianisme