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Definition of Mill-girl
1. Noun. A girl who works in a mill.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mill-girl
Literary usage of Mill-girl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of (1885)
"... Lucy's Mill-life — The Little " Dof- fer"—A Glimpse of the Daily Life of a
Lowell Mill Girl — The Lowell "Offering"—First Meeting with the Poet Whittier ..."
2. Brooks's Readers by Stratton Duluth Brooks (1906)
"A LITTLE MILL GIRL WOULD you like to hear the story of a little mill girl who
lived in New England more than half a century ago? Her home was in Lowell, ..."
3. Our Famous Women: An Authorized and Complete Record of the Lives and Deeds (1888)
"... the Family to Lowell —Lucy's Hill-life — The Little "Dof- fer"—A Glimpse of
the Daily Life of a Lowell Mill Girl — The Lowell " Offering "—First Meeting ..."
4. Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1884)
"... of the Family to Lowell —Lucy's Mill-life —The Little "Dof- fer"—A Glimpse of
the Daily Life of a Lowell Mill Girl — The Lowell "Offering"—First Meeting ..."
5. Prices and Wages: An Investigation of the Dynamic Forces in Social Economics by Percy Wallis, Albert Wallis (1921)
"It might be argued that if a skilled mechanic was put into a weaving shed to do
a mill-girl's work he would not produce any more cloth ..."
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