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Old 2009-03-20, 14:49   Link #3052
La Mite en Pullover
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Originally Posted by SeijiSensei View Post
My French is pretty rusty these days, so I wondered if "vilaine" was a misspelling of "villaine," the feminine form of "villain." Turns out "vilaine" means "ugly."

I looked around a bit to find an image of Ugly Lulu. Here's a couple from the cover of a book of St. Laurent's cartoons published in 1967:

I'll be curious to see how this translates to an anime.
Hi SeijiSensei. I am French and "vilaine" can also be traducted by "nasty" (sexual, grrr... ) or used when a kid does something forbidden or something like that (means "bad").
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