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A foreign maiden making inquiries is getting exposure (9)

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I believe the answer is:

unmasking

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'exposure' is the definition.
(unmasking is a kind of exposure)

'a foreign maiden making inquiries is getting' is the wordplay.
'a foreign' becomes 'un' ('a' translated into French).
'maiden making inquiries' becomes 'masking' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'is getting' says to put letters next to each other.
'un'+'masking'='UNMASKING'

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