goose-girln.
A girl employed to tend geese.
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1826 E. Taylor tr. J. L. Grimm & C. G. Grimm Ger. Pop. Stories II. 1 The Goose-girl.
1906 Westm. 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.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 24 Nov. 7/1 Like all Bohemian geese-girls, she carried a long branch, which served as a wand to drive her flock home.
1954 E. Wilkins & E. Kaiser tr. R. Musil Man without Qualities II. cv. 245 Of course, an Arnheim might permit himself to marry even a goose-girl if he wished.
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