native daughter

native daughter

English

Noun

native daughter (plural native daughters)

1. A woman born in a specified place.
   • 2000, Lee Ann Sandweiss, Seeking St. Louis: Voices from a River City, 1670-2000:

     The second piece, in which this native daughter recalls her school days and literary debut in The Mirror, is excerpted from Hurst's autobiography, Anatomy of Me (1958).

   • 2007, Mary R. Desjardins, Dietrich Icon:

     Her grandson, Peter Rive, received a certificate of honor from Walter Momper, president of the Berlin Parliament, and in his laudatio the city mayor Klaus Wowereit expressed his pride about the achievements of Berlin's most famous native daughter.

   • 2013, Camille Tuason Mata, Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System: An Examination of Oakland's Minority Districts:

     These contradictions set Oakland apart from other major metropolises and have inspired sentiments of nostalgic disappointments (referring to native daughter Gertrude Stein's musings of "there's no there, there" as cited in McClintock) [...]

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