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- noun Plural form of
shopgirl .
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Examples
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Astaire 1899-1987 couldn't stand to think of himself as the embodiment of terpsichorean romance or a pin-up boy for love-starved shopgirls.
He Just Had to Move Will Friedwald 2011
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One of the things I love best about it is that it feels like a World War II story I haven't seen a million times already, like Willis is showing us the war from the fringes of the actual battlefields, or rather Britain as a battlefield everyday people inhabited--exploring what it was like for shopgirls and actors who weren't performing for long stretches Sir Godfrey is my favorite!
Blitz Tourism 2010
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In 1960, Mr. Chabrol released "Les Bonnes Femmes," a moody film about four shopgirls looking for love.
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His early masterpiece Les Bonnes Femmes, about four shopgirls who long to escape their monotonous existence, offered a gallery of grotesques and macabre and farcical humour, but also poetry and tenderness.
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One of the things I love best about it is that it feels like a World War II story I haven't seen a million times already, like Willis is showing us the war from the fringes of the actual battlefields, or rather Britain as a battlefield everyday people inhabited--exploring what it was like for shopgirls and actors who weren't performing for long stretches Sir Godfrey is my favorite!
Books 2010
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One of the things I love best about it is that it feels like a World War II story I haven't seen a million times already, like Willis is showing us the war from the fringes of the actual battlefields, or rather Britain as a battlefield everyday people inhabited--exploring what it was like for shopgirls and actors who weren't performing for long stretches Sir Godfrey is my favorite!
Blitz Tourism 2010
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Lorelei Upchurch and the various shopgirls chattered like birds and pecked away at the merchandise, searching for precisely the right cut and color to suit Lorelei's admittedly charming physical features while presenting the right air for a nightclub singer.
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One of the things I love best about it is that it feels like a World War II story I haven't seen a million times already, like Willis is showing us the war from the fringes of the actual battlefields, or rather Britain as a battlefield everyday people inhabited--exploring what it was like for shopgirls and actors who weren't performing for long stretches Sir Godfrey is my favorite!
February 2010 2010
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The store tycoon William Whiteley created Whiteley Village in Surrey his benevolence did not protect him from being shot dead by the deranged son of one of his shopgirls, who believed he was Whiteley ' s illegitimate son.
An Enduring Ideal Ferdinand Mount 2010
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One of the things I love best about it is that it feels like a World War II story I haven't seen a million times already, like Willis is showing us the war from the fringes of the actual battlefields, or rather Britain as a battlefield everyday people inhabited--exploring what it was like for shopgirls and actors who weren't performing for long stretches Sir Godfrey is my favorite!
Scientifiction 2010
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