ingenue
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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
Too old for her age, and too young, one high school girl reads Ingenue, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle and the Bible alone at night in her room.
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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