belle-fille

Inherited from Middle French belle-fille. By surface analysis, belle- +‎ fille.

• IPA^(key): /bɛl.fij/

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• Rhymes: -ij
• Homophone: belles-filles

belle-fille f (plural belles-filles)

1. daughter-in-law (wife of one's child)

   Synonym: bru

2. stepdaughter (daughter of one's spouse and another person)

   Synonym: fillâtre

• → Franco-Provençal: bèla-felye

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