schoolgirldom
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From schoolgirl + -dom.
Noun
[edit]schoolgirldom (uncountable)
- Synonym of schoolgirlhood
- Coordinate terms: schoolboydom, schoolboyhood
- 1853, Bannerford; or, The Valley of Gold, page 364:
- He had also brought down a further reinforcement in the shape of his spinster-aunt, and fair young sister; the latter had surprised him, as he said, one fine morning, by throwing off the shackles of schoolgirldom, in which he had almost left her to oblivion.
- 1925, Ian Hay, Paid in Full, page 138:
- Molly, in the regulation blue serge and coloured hat-ribbon of schoolgirldom, approached her grand-uncle with solemn eyes.