Definition of Flower girl

1. Noun. A woman who sells flowers in the street.

Generic synonyms: Marketer, Seller, Trafficker, Vender, Vendor

2. Noun. A young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession.
Group relationships: Wedding, Wedding Party
Generic synonyms: Assistant, Help, Helper, Supporter, Female Child, Girl, Little Girl

Definition of Flower girl

1. Noun. A participant in a wedding procession, whose responsibility is usually to spread flower petals on the floor before the bride, or to carry a bouquet of flowers. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flower Girl

flower basket of Bochdalek
flower bed
flower beds
flower box
flower boxes
flower bud
flower chain
flower child
flower children
flower cluster
flower deluce
flower flies
flower fly
flower garden
flower gardening
flower girl
flower girls
flower head
flower heads
flower people
flower petal
flower petals
flower power
flower stalk
flower sticks
flower store
flowerage
flowerages
flowerbed
flowerbeds

Literary usage of Flower girl

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

1. The Monthly Review (1844)
"The Flower-Girl, and other Poems. By RHODA MARIA WlI.LAN. A MODEST preface puts us in a mood favourable to the writer. There is much sweetness and ..."

2. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"... Hunter's Boy (1859) ; flower girl, Indiscreet Belles (1860) ; Beading the Bible, Sunday, Cold and Hunger (1862) ; The Smith, He is coming ! ..."

3. Tuscan Cities by William Dean Howells (1885)
"FLORENTINE FLOWER-GIRL. Florentine fashion if you want it ... very patient and kind with the aged crone who plays the part of Florentine flower-girl in Via ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1867)
"THE flower girl OF SICYON. CHAPTER I. -' ME hither, sweetheart, sit by my side, and listen to me, for I am going to tell YOU a story of things that happened ..."

5. The Old Navy and the New by Daniel Ammen, Ulysses Simpson Grant (1891)
"It was not a detective; it was a flower- girl who was waiting to fix a ... A flower-girl always informs a stranger that she has heard of him through some ..."

6. Hawthorn and Lavender, with Other Verses by William Ernest HENLEY (1901)
"LONDON TYPES FLOWER-GIRL 5? THERE'S never a delicate nurseling of the year But our huge LONDON hails it, and delights To wear it on her breast or at her ear ..."

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