divorcee

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Borrowed from French divorcée, equivalent to divorce + -ee.

Notoriety--any social divorcee or big-hatted music-hall high-kicker can have that--if only they've kicked high enough! — The Dop Doctor, Richard Dehan
I could almost see Henderson turn up the charm, sculpting a voluptuous, horny divorcee in his ardent imagination. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover
She was magnificently a specimen of the illiterate divorcee of forty made up to look thirty, clever, and alluring. — Main Street, Sinclair Lewis

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