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ingenue
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synonyms: backfisch, girleen, chit, sylph, babe in the woods ???
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Definition:An ingenuous or naïve girl or young woman, or an actress representing such a person.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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And it also didn't make sense that Rowsdower would have anything to do with the library beauty. If he knew where I was, he didn't need an ingénue to ensnare me.
Wayne Gladestone. Notes from the Internet Apocalypse, p.147 (2014)
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"A Chaplain at the Troop Carrier Command," Michael said, "objects to the profanity used in our production of Folly of Youth. He says the leading man says damn seven times and the ingenue calls one of the characters a son of a bitch in the second act"
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, pp.358-9 (1948)
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Patient: Wait. She's making you do her?
House: Date her.
Wilson: Young ingenue doctor falling in love with gruff, older mentor.
David Shore. House, M.D., season 1: Love Hurts (2005)
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Tell me, isn't it a tragedy? And is not my sister like an ingénue, who has played already all the five acts of her life? The audience may stay for the farce, but the ingénue must go home to rest."
Anton Chekhov. The Duel and Other Stories
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