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noun an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl
noun an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage)
noun the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play
originBorrowed from French ingénue, the feminine form of ingénu (“guileless”), originally from the Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0