grisette

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.’

The anticipations of the shopkeeper were realized, and his rooms soon became notorious through the charms of the sprightly grisette.

The grisette amanita (Amanita vaginata), an edible mushroom in the amanita family.

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.

She talked animatedly, with her hands, and her excitement about something as boring as the differences between a saison and a grisette was contagious.