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Filles du Roi

Filles du Roi is the alternative spelling of Filles du Roy.

Meaning of Filles du Roy

Proper noun

Filles du Roy

  1. A non-religious program composed of orphaned girls of France shipped to New France to populate French North America with Frenchmen, by providing wives to the bachelor colonial French traders.
    • Considered from our own historical vantage-point, the lot of the Filles du Roy certainly seems to have been less than enviable.1971, The cultural tradition of Canadian women: the historical background

Origin of Filles du Roi

From French Filles du Roi.

Questions about Filles du Roi

What is Filles du Roi the alternative spelling of?
Filles du Roi is the alternative spelling of Filles du Roy.

Words near Filles du Roi in the dictionary

  1. filler-uppers
  2. fillercap
  3. fillercaps
  4. fillers
  5. Fillerses
  6. Filles du Roi
  7. Filles du Roy
  8. filles fatales
  9. fillest
  10. fillet
  11. fillet knife

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Filles du Roi (page history and authors); Filles du Roy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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