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Girl   /gərl/   Listen
noun
Girl  n.  
1.
A young person of either sex; a child. (Obs.)
2.
A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.
3.
A female servant; a maidservant. (U. S.)
4.
(Zool.) A roebuck two years old. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Girl" Quotes from Famous Books



... the high tide covered all the land, Making the pier a sea, the street a strand, And when the boat cast anchor at my threshold, Then from her home the little girl came forth Half bare, half clad, robed in the robe of light In a swift dancing flood that revelled full Of water-lust and crowns of ...
— Life Immovable - First Part • Kostes Palamas
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... into three classes; the young girl you address as "tee-tee"; the young person as "seester"; the more mature charmer as "mammy"; but I do not advise you to employ these terms when you are on your first visit, because you might get misunderstood. For, you see, by addressing a mammy as seester, she might ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
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... with me," she pleaded. "You will understand it all fully some day. I may be an odd sort of girl, but I can't help it- -I am simply ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben
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... of most women; but it was a sign of Mrs. Leath's quality that every movement, every syllable, told with her. Even in the old days, as an intent grave-eyed girl, she had seldom misplaced her light strokes; and Darrow, on meeting her again, had immediately felt how much finer and surer an instrument of ...
— The Reef • Edith Wharton
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... the late king to perish to save your other children," said Albert de Gondi. "Do, then, as the great signors of Constantinople do,—divert the anger and amuse the caprices of the present king. He loves art and poetry and hunting, also a little girl he saw at Orleans; there's ...
— Catherine de' Medici • Honore de Balzac
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