Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A school-girl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A schoolgirl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
schoolgirl .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She had stepped across our house-place like a queen, she had fronted that devil, Brocton, like a goddess, and now she was larking like a schoolmaid.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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For a long time Mr. Greenville, my Great-grandfather (and my enemies may see from this that I am of no Rascal Stock), cherished hopes that affairs might be brought to a shape without any shedding of Blood; but his hope proved a vain and deceiving one; ungovernable passions on either side caused not alone the drawing of the Sword, but the flinging away of the Scabbard; and my Grandmother was yet but a schoolmaid at
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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