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ˈgoose-girl
[After G. gänsemagd.]
A girl employed to tend geese.
1826E. Taylor tr. Grimm's German Popular Stories II. 1 The Goose-girl. 1906Westm. Gaz. 28 July 12/3 Mr. Randal Charlton has written a fairy-tale, and his heroine is called Mave. Of course she ought to be a Princess, but she is rather of the goose-girl type. Ibid. 24 Nov. 7/1 Like all Bohemian geese-girls, she carried a long branch, which served as a wand to drive her flock home. 1954Wilkins & Kaiser tr. Musil's Man without Qualities II. cv. 245 Of course, an Arnheim might permit himself to marry even a goose-girl if he wished. |