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- proper noun UK, Canada A worldwide youth organisation for girls. Known as the
Girl Scouts in the USA. - noun Plural form of
Girl Guide .
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Examples
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They run the Girl Guides; sing in the church choir; coach the kids' soccer team and take part in any number of community activities that take place every day of the year.
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Iris Morris Ferris (1910 – 1970) rose to the position of General Secretary in the London headquarters of the Girl Guides movement.
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But I think all the years of camping in Girl Guides, with my parents, and then with some super granola boyfriends have kind of sapped me of my camping spirit.
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Girl Scouts sell Thin Mints, Girl Guides sell a similar cookie, but the cookie has a thin minty center instead of having mint in the cookie itself.
dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008
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It was said that he selected the wife who worked with him so long in so charitable a fashion, by picking her out of a whole regiment of women in uniform marching past at some official celebration, some said of the Girl Guides and some of the Women
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It was said that he selected the wife who worked with him so long in so charitable a fashion, by picking her out of a whole regiment of women in uniform marching past at some official celebration, some said of the Girl Guides and some of the Women
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The minister said the decision to recruit from schools would mean that organisations such as the Boy Scouts, and Girl Guides and school cadets would have an important role to play as they would assist in recognising an "inclination" by youth towards military life.
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'We've been talking to the Girl Guides and their response has been great,' says Caryn Franklin.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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'We've been talking to the Girl Guides and their response has been great,' says Caryn Franklin.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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'We've been talking to the Girl Guides and their response has been great,' says Caryn Franklin.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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