grizette

Noun

grisette (plural grisettes)

1. A (chiefly French) girl or young married woman of the lower class; especially, a young working-class woman of perceived easy morals.
   • ‘What a fuss is here, indeed, about a little grisette: why, one would think Beresford had carried off an heiress.’1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 263
2. The grisette amanita (Amanita vaginata), an edible mushroom in the amanita family.
3. A variety of low-alcohol beer that is light in body, with a noticeable tartness similar to other farmhouse ales.
   • Oral accounts of those who remember the old grisettes say they were low-alcohol, light-bodied, saison-like golden ales of no great distinction.2004, Phil Markowski, Farmhouse Ales: Culture and Craftsmanship in the European Tradition, Brewers Publications, →ISBN