undergraduette
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From undergraduate + -ette.
Noun
[edit]undergraduette (plural undergraduettes)
- (dated) A female undergraduate of an academic institution.
- 1930, Travel, volume 56, page 30:
- One can safely guess that the few girls are not undergraduettes, but out-of-town visitors. For Oxford men usually display a hearty unconcern for undergraduettes.
- 1973, John Hutchison MacCallum Scott, Dons and students: British universities today, page 102:
- An undergraduette could only visit an undergraduate in his room if chaperoned by another undergraduette, and within strictly limited hours.