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Definition of Newsgirl
1. a girl who delivers or sells newspapers [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Newsgirl
Literary usage of Newsgirl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1902)
"Timothy is a New York newsboy, and one of his friends is his dog, Grace Darling.
The Yellow Violin. Mary A. Denison. A story of a little newsgirl. ..."
2. The Diseases of Society: The Vice and Crime Problem by George Frank Lydston (1906)
"... offices and business houses was finally brought to the attention of the police,
and the newsgirl as an institution became a thing of the past. ..."
3. Books in the War: The Romance of Library War Service by Theodore Wesley Koch (1919)
"... as the newsgirl had plenty of patronage, we could not understand, at first,
her apparent indifference to trade. Later, we discovered that all of the ..."
4. Publications by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) (1910)
"They also require a newsboy or newsgirl to be decently clothed, so that they will
not work upon the sympathies of the public, and in a majority of cases ..."
5. Rhetoric and the Study of Literature by Alfred Marshall Hitchcock (1913)
"Is it right to buy a paper from a newsgirl under twelve years of age? 2.
Should high school students twenty-one years or more old be permitted to take part ..."
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