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Definition of Shop girl
1. Noun. A young female shop assistant.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shop Girl
Literary usage of Shop girl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr, Arthur Lawrence, Sidney Herbert Sime (1895)
"Years sped by before the shop-girl had once more a chance to make her bow to the
public. And yet until the world is "run" on some Socialistic or ..."
2. Types from City Streets by Hutchins Hapgood (1910)
"VIII THE SHOP-GIRL DEPARTMENT-STORE REFINEMENT—THE CLIMBER— THE SWASHBUCKLER m
... The "higher" the shop-girl is, indeed, the more false and cheap is her ..."
3. Others, an Anthology of the New Verse by Alfred Kreymborg (1916)
"EZRA POUND shop girl For a moment she rested against me Like a swallow half blown
to the wall, And they talk of Swinburne's women, And the shepherdess ..."
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