"needle-girl" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "needle-girls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "needle-girl (plural needle-girls)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1848, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Jennette Alison; Or, The Young Strawberry Girl",
          "text": "Her complexion is pure and warm, though pale, as if from too close confinement; for I have now no doubt that she is a needle-girl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1856, Green Peas Picked From the Patch of Invisible Green Esq., page 133",
          "text": "Indeed I soon, found that the poor needle-girl was not the orphan with property.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Pierre Coustillas, Collin Partridge, George Gissing: The Critical Heritage, page 143",
          "text": "There is the needle-girl, with her helplessness, her nerveless imbecility, her utter ignorance, her dolorous prettiness, her thriftless marriage, her half-starved children dying about her like flies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A girl or young woman who is employed doing sewing and simple embroidery."
      ],
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          "girl",
          "girl"
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          "young",
          "young"
        ],
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ],
        [
          "sewing",
          "sewing"
        ],
        [
          "embroidery",
          "embroidery"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A girl or young woman who is employed doing sewing and simple embroidery."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "needle girl"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "needle-girl"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "needle-girls",
      "tags": [
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      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1848, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Jennette Alison; Or, The Young Strawberry Girl",
          "text": "Her complexion is pure and warm, though pale, as if from too close confinement; for I have now no doubt that she is a needle-girl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1856, Green Peas Picked From the Patch of Invisible Green Esq., page 133",
          "text": "Indeed I soon, found that the poor needle-girl was not the orphan with property.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Pierre Coustillas, Collin Partridge, George Gissing: The Critical Heritage, page 143",
          "text": "There is the needle-girl, with her helplessness, her nerveless imbecility, her utter ignorance, her dolorous prettiness, her thriftless marriage, her half-starved children dying about her like flies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A girl or young woman who is employed doing sewing and simple embroidery."
      ],
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          "young",
          "young"
        ],
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          "woman",
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          "sewing",
          "sewing"
        ],
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          "embroidery",
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        "(historical) A girl or young woman who is employed doing sewing and simple embroidery."
      ],
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        "historical"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "needle girl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "needle-girl"
}