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divorcée en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /dɪvɔɹˈseɪ/ (General-American)
  • /dɪˈvɔːseɪ/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from French divorcée (“divorced woman”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Divorced (of a woman).
    • We -- we -- since she was divorcée, I persuaded our minister unfortunately to -- to give them together, just the same. 1997 08, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Cross of Reality - 1953, Argo Books, →ISBN, page 354:
    • [She] was divorcee and had a kid (daughter). I accepted the kid and I kept her as my own child. 2010 November 1, Anita Jain, Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 149:
    • [She went] ballistic on him and told him that a woman who was divorcee, with three kids to raise, only wanted him for support. (Can we date this quote?), Mercedes Vizarro, Cursed, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 49:

Relateds

divorcé · divorcee

divorcée en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /dɪvɔɹˈseɪ/ (General-American)
  • /dɪˈvɔːseɪ/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from French divorcée (“divorced woman”).

Meanings

  1. A divorced woman.
    • With a man allowed to divorce his wife without stating reasons, there can be instances where the divorcée faces dire problems. 1987 October, Marianne Alireza, “Women of Saudi Arabia”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 453:
    • There are, in fact, 52,238 different ways to express your particular kink. (I know because I counted them, with the help of Stacey Smith-Bajorek, a divorcée from down the street.) 2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 18:

Forms

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Translations (15)

la vidua (divorced woman) · pl rozwiedziona (divorced woman) · is fráskilin kona (divorced woman) · mk разведе́ница (divorced woman) · cmn 離婚者 /离婚者 (divorced woman) · fi eronnut (divorced woman) · el διαζευγμένη (divorced woman) · fr divorcée (divorced woman) · mk распуште́ница (divorced woman) · ru разведённая (divorced woman) · he גרושה \ גְּרוּשָׁה (divorced woman) · pl rozwódka (divorced woman) · rif tajjatš (divorced woman) · el ζωντοχήρα (divorced woman) · de Geschiedene (divorced woman)