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girl s.

1. fată, femeie tânără;

my old girl nevasta mea, femeia mea;

old girl! bătrânico, vechea mea prietenă! (independent de vârstă);

the Smith girls fetele Smith, domnişoarele Smith;

girl of the town femeie publică.

2. (şi servant girl) servitoare, slujnică; fată în casă, fată la toate.

3. (şi shop girl) vânzătoare de magazin.

4. (şi best girl) iubită, ibovnică.

5. (şi work-girl) lucrătoare, muncitoare.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

“And you would scarcely demand a little girl of nine to earn her own living.”

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

McCarthy kept two servants—a man and a girl.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I stood beside Van Helsing, and said:—Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

The knowledge that the girl’s story is true.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Somehow the sight of the old shoes had a good effect upon the girls, for Mother was coming, and everyone brightened to welcome her.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

"You may look at it," replied the girl, offering me the book.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“If you had had one, I should think she would have been a pretty, timid, little, bright-eyed sort of girl. I should have liked to know her. Good night, young Copperfield.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Later, he observed that the boy and girl were of great value in the master's eyes.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

The girl is not told of the arrival of her brother, and finds it out by the merest accident.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But do not mourn, dear girl. Do not fear.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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