variants:
or girl child
plural girl-children or girl children
Definition of girl-child
: a young female child
On the summer evening – Tom Hard took the girl child to the house of a relative where she had been invited to spend the night.— Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, 1919 But then I … look at the sleeping girl-child in my arms, her small hand curled around one of my fingers …— W. P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe, 1982
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“Girl-child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/girl-child. Accessed 25 Jun. 2022.
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The first known use of girl-child was circa 1755
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