Yvette
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See also: yvette
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French Yvette. The politics sense is a reference to the name of a docile young girl in a school textbook, and was popularized by separatist politician Lise Payette (1931–2018).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Yvette
- A female given name from French borrowed from French in the nineteenth century.
Translations
[edit]female given name
Noun
[edit]Yvette (plural Yvettes)
- (Quebec, politics, derogatory, dated) A term of derision used by Quebec separatists to refer to Federalist-voting French Quebecois housewives.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Yvette f
- a female given name, masculine equivalent Yves
Noun
[edit]Yvette f (plural Yvettes)
- (Quebec, politics, derogatory, dated) Yvette (Federalist-voting French Quebecois housewife)
- 2010 [1982], Lise Payette, Le pouvoir ? Connais pas!, Athéna éditions, →ISBN, page 88:
- J’ai enchaîné en disant que j’étais une Yvette, que nous étions toutes des Yvettes à cause de l’éducation que nous avons reçue. Improvisant devant sept cent cinquante personnes, j’ai ajouté que Claude Ryan, si on en jugeait par ses propos et ses attitudes, serait le genre d’homme à vouloir que les femmes restent des Yvettes et… maladresse des maladresses, j’ai ajouté : « Il est d’ailleurs marié à une Yvette. »
- I went on to say that I was an Yvette, that we were all Yvettes because of the way we were brought up. Improvising in front of seven hundred and fifty people, I added that Claude Ryan, if one were to judge by his comments and his attitudes, seemed the kind of man who would want women to remain Yvettes, and… I made the blunder of all blunders by adding, "What's more, he's married to an Yvette."
Further reading
[edit]- affaire des Yvettes on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Etymology 2
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun
[edit]Yvette f
- Yvette (a tributary of the Orge, Île-de-France, France)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Yvette (rivière) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
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