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n. -The time of a female person's life when she is a child

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  • She had loved him in girlhood; but that love seemed to her among things of the past.
  • A few treasures of her girlhood are the sole reminders of her uneventful springtime.
  • BTW The only dressed I remember from my girlhood are the ones my mother made for me.
  • Her girlhood was a continuation of her childhood with less tragic motives of weariness.
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