Meaning of needle-girl | Babel Free

Definitions

A girl or young woman who is employed doing sewing and simple embroidery.

historical

Examples

“Her complexion is pure and warm, though pale, as if from too close confinement; for I have now no doubt that she is a needle-girl.”

“Indeed I soon, found that the poor needle-girl was not the orphan with property.”

“There is the needle-girl, with her helplessness, her nerveless imbecility, her utter ignorance, her dolorous prettiness, her thriftless marriage, her half-starved children dying about her like flies.”

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