the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. State or time of being a girl.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The state or time of being a girl; the earlier stage of maidenhood.
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n. the childhood of a girl
Word Usage
"Her manner in girlhood was not exactly either "meek" or "gentle;" except towards him, the only one who ever ruled her, and to whom she was, through life, the meekest and tenderest of women."