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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Rigolette

(3 syl.). A grisette, a courtesan; so called from Rigolette, in Eugène Sue's Mysteries of Paris.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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