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Definition of Gibson girl
1. Noun. The idealized American girl of the 1890s as pictured by C. D. Gibson.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibson Girl
Literary usage of Gibson girl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. By and Large by Franklin Pierce Adams (1914)
"TO THE PRESENT gibson girl Lady of the neo-Gibson school, In the realm of Art I
am lignitic; Though I'm there at dice and ..."
2. Samuel L. Schmucker: The Discovery of His Lost Art by Jack Davis, Dorothy Ryan (2001)
"His name was Charles Dana Gibson and his concept of the gibson girl and the Gibson
Man ... The gibson girl was American womanhood idealized, the American ..."
3. Idle Idyls by Carolyn Wells (1900)
"A SECRET WOE A GIBSON Girl was hanging in a frame upon my wall; She was exceeding
graceful and she was exceeding tall. 1 suppose I must have dreamed it, ..."
4. Great Japan: A Study of National Efficiency by Alfred Stead (1906)
"love, "The gibson girl" Uniform with A WIDOW AND HER FRIENDS. AMERICANS.
THE EDUCATION OF MR. PIPP. LONDON : As SEEN BY CD GIBSON. SKETCHES AND CARTOONS. ..."
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