Girlhood
['gɜːlhʊd] or ['ɡɝlhʊd]
Definition
(n.) State or time of being a girl.
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Examples
- I did mightily wonder how she came there, or what she could have to do among the scenes, or with the days of my girlhood. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But he was still dizzy with the glimpse of the precipice they had skirted, and full of a new awe at the mystery of young-girlhood. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I saw only herself--her young beautiful form, the grace, the majesty, the modesty of her girlhood. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The simple illusions of her girlhood are gone, and my hand has stripped them off. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I spent several years of my girlhood there, with my mother. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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