DCHP-2
King's girl [trans. of F fille du roi] Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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one of the women sent to New France by Louis XIV as wives for settlers.
- 1940 To enable the bachelor to escape such punishments a thousand young women were sent out from France in eight years to find husbands. They were known as "the King's girls". . . .
- 1940 To enable the bachelor to escape such punishments a thousand young women were sent out from France in eight years to find husbands. They were known as "the King's girls". . . .