la femme-enfant

English translation: child-woman

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French term or phrase:	la femme-enfant
English translation:	child-woman
Entered by:	texasweed

09:35 Nov 30, 2006

French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Marketing - Cosmetics, Beauty

French term or phrase: la femme-enfant

describing a woman's personality

Hannah

child-woman

Explanation:
Interchangeable with woman-child, I like ormiston's "baby doll" too!

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texasweed
France
Local time: 04:46

Grading comment

Selected automatically based on peer agreement.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +5

child-woman

texasweed

baby doll

ormiston

a girlish woman

Alanguelaise

lolita?

Glen McCulley

child-like woman

Jennifer White

child woman//childlike woman

Assimina Vavoula

Answers

8 mins confidence:

baby doll

Explanation:
though perhaps too visual ?

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Note added at 13 mins (2006-11-30 09:48:35 GMT)
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to check on my instinct I went online and found this !!
"Baby Doll interprétée par Caroll Baker est la jeune femme enfant paumée qui s’ennuie et se livre aux regards des hommes. Le..."

ormiston
Local time: 04:46
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 37

32 mins confidence:

a girlish woman

Explanation:
"Girlish" is often used to describe people's personalities

Alanguelaise
France
Local time: 04:46
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

45 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

child-woman

Explanation:
Interchangeable with woman-child, I like ormiston's "baby doll" too!

Example sentence(s):

Child-Woman in Romantic and Victorian Literature

Reference: http://www.unm.edu/~loboblog/mort/archives/006513.html

texasweed
France
Local time: 04:46
Native speaker of:

French,

English

Grading comment

Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

42 mins confidence:

lolita?

Explanation:
just an idea to work with - was the first thing that crossed my (one-track) mind

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Note added at 46 mins (2006-11-30 10:21:23 GMT)
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haven't got time right now - but you should check out descriptions of femalee characters in the chandler-scripted bogart films like The Big Sleep, where there was always this kind of character (Bacall's younger sister in the Big Sleep), i.e. *precociulsy sexy* but immature

Glen McCulley
Local time: 04:46
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 4

2 hrs confidence:

child-like woman

Explanation:
agée de 27 ans bientot, je suis maman d'un garçon d'un an et je vis en couple depuis plus de 5 ans, j'ai eu des problèmes familiaux (rejet de mes parents frere et soeur, problème d'integration dans mon enfance et aujourd'hui, après un suivi psycologique je dois dire que je vais bien mais je suis une femme enfant.
je n'arrive pas a grandir mentalement
je suis peu sur de moi. je suis nature et souvent je fais rire mes connaissance car je parle comme ça me vient sans forme.
je souhaiterais changer ça car meme si ça a des aventages ça a beaucoup d'inconvénient.
je n'arrive pas a m'accepter, je parle comme une petite fille, je suis très négative meme si je fais du bon travail au boulot ou si je suis maman et épouse
je ne sais pas si vous arrivez a me suivre mais j'aurais besoin d'aide car j'ai mis cinq ans a devenir ce que je suis maintenant mais je veux plus encore
je ne veux pas atteindre le parfais mais je veux etre a deux doigt de l'atteindre
merci a tous

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Note added at 2 hrs (2006-11-30 12:23:13 GMT)
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The term childlike woman has plenty of Google hits and seems to fit here.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2006-11-30 12:25:53 GMT)
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Sorry, didn't see Assimina's added note.

Jennifer White
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:46
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

4 hrs confidence:

child woman//childlike woman

Explanation:
GOOGLE:

The prototype for a "child woman" is Brigitte Bardot. The reason why childlike women are perceived as being more attractive, is a biological...

think you've already figured it out in what you've written; the loving innocence and vulnerability given out by a childlike woman...

COLOR ME PERFECT
In 1996, Michele became the first woman to produce, write direct and star in an original motion picture for television. Color Me Perfect is the story of a free-spirited, childlike woman with limited intelligence who is chosen for a groundbreaking genetic experiment to improve her mental capacity. Amidst controversy, the woman becomes a genius and her life is changed forever. The film made its debut as an "event presentation" on Lifetime Television November 5, 1996.
http://www.eiconline.org/celeb/leemichele.php

The metamorphosis of the childlike woman into a woman who is aware of her self and her sexuality subverts all preconceived notions of Indian femininity.”
http://www.photoink.net/about_turn_text.doc

Ms. Vega is a tiny, appealing, childlike woman with dyed red hair who is dressed in hospital clothes. Her face and arms are covered with bruises and scratches from the events of the night before. She is smiling and seductive, rolling her eyes, crossing and recrossing her legs.The interview takes place in a small, windowless interviewing room into which are crowded the attending psychiatrist, five psychiatric residents, and two social workers. The attending psychiatrist asks her to describe what happened to her, and she says she was washing dishes at her boyfriend's house, where she had been living, and began to have chest pains. Her boyfriend's mother told her to lie down, and the next thing she remembers, she was in the emergency room in chains. The family told her that she "got wild" and tried to bite people. She explains that this has happened many times..."

http://www.psychiatryonline.com/content.aspx?aID=30106

http://www.slate.com/id/2136418/

Assimina Vavoula
Greece
Local time: 05:46
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Greek

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