Word: girlhood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Vassar girls have a peculiar phraseology of their own, as I noticed when I went to their annual "Phil" on Friday evening by invitation of a tempting "cousin." In addition to the ordinary slang of girlhood, their vocabulary is still further extended. I gazed wonderingly and rather vacuously perhaps when my cousin said: "Look at that cow. What do you think of its lace?" I could not see any cow, but only an extremely pretty girl with some transparent, interwoven. fluffy stuff around her neck. Later I found that in the Vassar girl's classification all males...
...Sorosis, who was the sister of Mrs. Butterfield's father, had, in her girlhood, displayed some talent in the way of religious poetry, and after leaving Pennsylvania, and having both time and money at her disposal, she renewed her communings with the Muses and published the results to her great satisfaction in that hebdomadal sheet which assists at digestion of fish-balls and brown-bread in many a Boston household every Sunday morning...
...woman scarce from girlhood past...