grisette

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A (chiefly French) girl or young married woman of the lower class

   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.
   • […]Paris from afar sounded its fanfare of masked balls with the laugh of grisettes.
2. 2

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

3. 3

   A variety of low-alcohol beer that is light in body, with a noticeable tartness similar…

   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.
   • Largely grounded in European classics, the ever-changing roster of taps cycles through grisettes, altbiers, kölsches, and saisons, but also trots out “beastly” concoctions like Imperial IPAs as well.

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