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Yvette

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//iːˈvɛt//
  • United Kingdom//ɪˈvɛt//

A female given name from French borrowed from French in the nineteenth century.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from French borrowed from French in the nineteenth century.

Etymology

Borrowed from French Yvette. The politics sense is a reference to the name of a docile young girl in a school textbook, and was popularized by separatist politician Lise Payette (1931–2018).

noun

  1. 1

    datedA term of derision used by Quebec separatists to refer to Federalist-voting French Quebecois housewives.

Forms

plural
Yvettes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).