fille
Noun
Meaning
a young female
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a young lady of 18
In Europe, 17-year-old Brigitte Bardot wore scanty bikinis (by contemporary standards) in the French film Manina, la fille sans voiles ("Manina, the girl unveiled").
Ashbrook 1982, p. 651, note 50. La fille received its first performance in America on 7 March 1843 at the Théâtre d'Orléans in New Orleans.
But at the last minute the soldiers of the Regiment storm in (Chorus: soldiers, then Tonio: Au secours de notre fille / "Our daughter needs our help") and it is revealed that Marie was a canteen girl.
Before arriving in Milan by August 1840, he visited Switzerland and then his hometown of Bergamo, eventually reaching Milan where he was to prepare an Italian version of La fille du régiment.
I myself saw the unsuccess, almost the collapse, of La fille du régiment."