midinette

Borrowed from French midinette, from midi (“midday”) + dinette, diminutive of diner (“dinner”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɪdɪˈnɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

midinette (plural midinettes)

1. A female salesperson, a shopgirl, especially in Paris; a vacuous but fashionable young woman.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 611:

     This? One finds them in every other midinette’s haunt, literally for sous.

2. A type of miniature climbing rose.

Blend of midi +‎ dînette.

• IPA^(key): /mi.di.nɛt/

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midinette f (plural midinettes)

1. shopgirl, salesclerk, midinette
2. bimbo, midinette

• “midinette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).