Definition of "girlhood" []

• The state of being a girl. (noun)
• The childhood of a girl. (noun)

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• "As I said in this presence last year, how can you expect complete independence for Egypt when, as shown by the last census, 95 percent. of the people are still illiterate, and when the womanhood of Egypt and its girlhood is 99.3 percent illiterate?"
• "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."
• "Even in these years of change, when she must go to the public school, she continues to represent all that is delightful in Japanese girlhood; for her special home-training keeps her reverent, innocent, dainty in all her little ways, and worthy to remain the pet of the gods."