pretty; cute; jolly, nice, pleasant, agreeable
“Julie, fille jolie, un jour était allée cueillir au cœur des blés la belle fleur des blés, des bleuets pour s'en faire une couronne bleue, se faire une couronne et se distraire un peu.” — Julie, a pretty girl, had gone one day to pick among the wheat the beautiful flower of the cornfields, cornflowers to make herself a blue wreath, to make herself a wreath and amuse herself a little.
Synonyms: agréable
Inherited from Middle French joly (“considerable, ingenious, agreeable, pretty”), from Old French joli, jolif (“pretty, smart, joyful, merry”), possibly from Old Norse jól (midwinter festival), from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, *jeulō (“Yule, Yule month, December”) (more at yule); alternatively from Vulgar Latin *gaudivus (from Latin gaudeō, more at joy).