Meaning of girlchild | Babel Free

Definitions

A female child.

Examples

“The male is esteemed "the head of the family;" it belongs to him; he maintains it; and the rest⟳ of the world is a wide hunting ground and battlefield wherein he competes with other males as of old. ¶ The girl-child, peering out, sees this forbidden field as belonging wholly to men-kind; and her relation to it is to secure one for herself—not only that she may love⟳, but that she may live⟳.”

“She had a baby slung on her back in a shawl, a girl child clinging to her skirts, and a heavy-faced boy plodding behind her.”

“"Patróklos, why all the weeping? Like⟳ a small girlchild who runs beside her mother and cried and cries to be taken up, and catches at her gown, and will not let⟳ her go, looking up in tears until she has her wish⟳: that's how you seem, Patróklos, winking out your glimmering tears.”

“In the final, affirming piece, "They Tell⟳ Me...Now I Know⟳," the girlchild narrator begins menstruation, thus undergoing her rite of passage into womanhood.”

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