Definitions
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- adjective Without a
girl or girls.
Etymologies
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girl + -less
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Examples
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In 1906, the New York Times ran a Sunday magazine feature The Passing of the Telephone Girl: A Retrospect, which started by reporting that, there has been some anxiety felt in Hello circles as to the future of the telephone girl in case the automatic girlless phone should be adopted.
Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us Emily Yellin 2009
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She had kept his boyhood girlless, year and year, by sheer force of her own love for him, and need of him, and by the charm and magnetism that were hers.
Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926
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