Definition of “girlhood”

And there was a new maturity about her that consolidated her chameleon girlhood beauty with a kind of richness.

During her girlhood in Macedonia, she disobeyed her parents ' instructions never to explore a disused mine near her home.

Each of the pro chefs competing The little oven of my girlhood has come a long way, baby.

Her disquisition on lawns combines vignettes of her Massachusetts girlhood with an eye-opening history of grass-cutting through the ages.

Mistress of memories on the bus was Fay Dolby, a sprightly seventy years young and a supporter from her girlhood.

Nevertheless, for a few years during her girlhood , she was intensely pious, even to the point of bigotry.

She looked around her, as if looking for her lost girlhood.

The child reaches girlhood - or boy-hood - with obedience engrained in its character.