noun
definition
The state of being a girl.
definition
The childhood of a girl.
Examples of girlhood in a Sentence
Rowland, desired to create a doll that focused on girlhood and made history interesting and fun to learn.
It was also the birthplace and early home of Lucy Larcom (1826-1893), and the scene of much of her Story of a New England Girlhood (Boston, 188q).
The company's aim is to "encourage them [girls] to enjoy girlhood through fun and enchanting play."
An Idyl of Work (1875) describes the life of the mills and A New England Girlhood (1889) is autobiographical; she wrote many stories and poems, of which Hannah Binding Shoes is best known.
Her girlhood was passed at Ismailovo near Moscow, with her mother, an ignorant, bigoted tsaritsa of the old school, who neglected and even hated her daughters.
The idea of a child might awaken many deep-seated anxieties within the mother, especially if she has difficult memories from her own girlhood.
A white rosebud indicates girlhood, while red rosebuds mean purity and loveliness.
If your favorite girlhood shoe style still tugs on your heart whenever you see a pair, guess what?
The woman, a few steps from girlhood, was attractive in a cute, but no-nonsense way.
Then in July 1646 Lady Dalkeith carried the princess in disguise to France, and she rejoined her mother in Paris, where her girlhood was spent and where she was educated as a Roman Catholic. Henrietta was present at the coronation of Louis XIV., and was mentioned as a possible bride for the king, but she was betrothed, not to Louis, but to his only brother Philip. After the restoration of her brother Charles II., she returned to England with her mother, but a few months later she was again in Paris, where she was married to Philip, now duke of Orleans, on the 30th of March 1661.
Litchfield was the birthplace of Ethan Allen; of Henry Ward Beecher; of Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose novel, Poganuc People, presents a picture of social conditions in Litchfield during her girlhood; of Oliver Wolcott, Jr. (1760-1833); of John Pierpont (1785-1866), the poet, preacher and lecturer; and of Charles Loring Brace, the philanthropist.
Looking at her she may have recalled the golden, irrecoverable days of her own girlhood and her own first ball.