divorcée

Borrowed from French divorcée (“divorced woman”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈvɔːseɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪvɔɹˈseɪ/
• Homophone: divorcé

divorcée (plural divorcées)

1. A divorced woman.

divorcée (not comparable)

1. Divorced (of a woman).
   • (Can we date this quote?), Mercedes Vizarro, Cursed, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 49:

     [She went] ballistic on him and told him that a woman who was divorcee, with three kids to raise, only wanted him for support.

   • 1997 08, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Cross of Reality - 1953, Argo Books, →ISBN, page 354:

     We -- we -- since she was divorcée, I persuaded our minister unfortunately to -- to give them together, just the same.

   • 2010 November 1, Anita Jain, Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 149:

     [She] was divorcee and had a kid (daughter). I accepted the kid and I kept her as my own child.

• divorcé (“divorced man”)
• divorcee (“divorced man / divorced woman”)

• iced-over, revoiced

• IPA^(key): /di.vɔʁ.se/

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divorcée f sg

1. feminine singular of divorcé

• “divorcée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• décevoir