Filles du Roy

English

proper-noun
Definitions
  • A non-religious program composed of orphaned girls of France shipped to New France to populate French North America with Frenchmen, by providing wives to the bachelor colonial French traders.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French Filles du Roy.

Origin

Middle French

Filles du Roy

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