ingénue
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Her recent memoir, “The Secret Listener: An Ingenue in Mao’s Court,” was published last year.
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2023
Raoul is the stock Handsome Heroic Figure, the Phantom is the Tortured Genius, Christine is barely fleshed out beyond the Ingenue and Carlotta is a flimsy Temperamental Diva.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2016
Ingenue, for instance, is coded orange; it's relatively stark, with Yorke at the piano.
From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2013
But he also wrote, and, in 1969, sold his first piece, a short story, to Ingenue.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then we checked the latest issues of Ingenue and Mademoiselle and Seventeen and decided we’d get box-pleated skirts in tartan plaid—green—for the first day of school.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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