Definition of Gibson girl

1. Noun. The idealized American girl of the 1890s as pictured by C. D. Gibson.

Generic synonyms: Fille, Girl, Miss, Missy, Young Lady, Young Woman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibson Girl

Gibbs-Helmholtz equation
Gibbs energy of activation
Gibbs free energy
Gibney
Gibney's boot
Gibney's fixation bandage
Gibraltar
Gibraltar fever
Gibraltarian
Gibraltarians
Gibralter
Gibran
Gibson
Gibson's bandage
Gibson Desert
Gibson girl (current term)
Gibson murmur
Gibsonian
Gibsons
Gida
Gidar
Gide
Gideon Algernon Mantell
Gielgud
Giemsa
Giemsa chromosome banding stain
Giemsa stain
Gierke's disease
Gierke's respiratory bundle
Gierke cells

Literary usage of Gibson girl

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. By and Large by Franklin Pierce Adams (1914)
"TO THE PRESENT Gibson girl Lady of the neo-Gibson school, In the realm of Art I am lignitic; Though I'm there at dice and ..."

2. Samuel L. Schmucker: The Discovery of His Lost Art by Jack Davis, Dorothy Ryan (2001)
"His name was Charles Dana Gibson and his concept of the Gibson girl and the Gibson Man ... The Gibson girl was American womanhood idealized, the American ..."

3. Idle Idyls by Carolyn Wells (1900)
"A SECRET WOE A GIBSON Girl was hanging in a frame upon my wall; She was exceeding graceful and she was exceeding tall. 1 suppose I must have dreamed it, ..."

4. Great Japan: A Study of National Efficiency by Alfred Stead (1906)
"love, "The Gibson girl" Uniform with A WIDOW AND HER FRIENDS. AMERICANS. THE EDUCATION OF MR. PIPP. LONDON : As SEEN BY CD GIBSON. SKETCHES AND CARTOONS. ..."

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