needle-girl
English
Alternative forms
- needle girl
Noun
needle-girl (plural needle-girls)
- (historical) A girl or young woman who is employed doing sewing and simple embroidery.
- 1848, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Jennette Alison; Or, The Young Strawberry Girl:
- Her complexion is pure and warm, though pale, as if from too close confinement; for I have now no doubt that she is a needle-girl.
- 1856, Green Peas Picked From the Patch of Invisible Green Esq., page 133:
- Indeed I soon, found that the poor needle-girl was not the orphan with property.
- 2013, Pierre Coustillas & Collin Partridge, George Gissing: The Critical Heritage, →ISBN, page 143:
- There is the needle-girl, with her helplessness, her nerveless imbecility, her utter ignorance, her dolorous prettiness, her thriftless marriage, her half-starved children dying about her like flies.
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Anagrams
- ledger line