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Definition of Shopgirls
1. shopgirl [n] - See also: shopgirl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shopgirls
Literary usage of Shopgirls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. More that Must be Told by Philip Gibbs (1921)
"They were a vast crowd of bourgeoisie—clerks, shopgirls, working-class families,
respectable middle-class men and women with their children. ..."
2. More that Must be Told by Philip Gibbs (1921)
"They were a vast crowd of bourgeoisie—clerks, shopgirls, working-class families,
respectable middle-class men and women with their children. ..."
3. Bulletin of the Department of Labor by United States Dept. of Labor (1898)
"Bookkeepers, 5; nurses,4; saleswomen, 12; servants,3; shopgirls,6; stenographers,20;
miscellaneous, 4. All occupations open to women. ..."
4. Oral English: Or, The Art of Speaking by Antoinette Knowles (1916)
"These shopgirls have a right to their holidays. They are not machines, wound up
and guaranteed not to stop, but are human beings like ourselves, ..."
5. Authors and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1921)
"Rightly was O. Henry called by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay "the little shopgirls'
knight." Through Galsworthy's "Justice" the law ..."
6. Authors and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1920)
"Rightly was O. Henry called by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay "the little shopgirls'
knight." Through Galsworthy's "Justice" the law relating to solitary ..."
7. Salesmanship by William Morey Maxwell (1914)
"If he did there would be less need for commissions to inquire laboriously into
the relation between shopgirls' wages and shopgirls' chastity, ..."
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