Gibson girl

American  

noun

1. the idealized American girl of the 1890s as represented in the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson.

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adjective

1. of, indicating, or resembling the characteristic clothing of the Gibson girl, typically a high-necked, fitted blouse or bodice with full puff sleeves and a long skirt with a flared bottom and a tightly fitted waistline.

Gibson girl British  

noun

1. the ideal fashionable American girl of the late 1890s and early 1900s, as portrayed in the drawings of Charles Dana Gibson, 1867–1944, US illustrator

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Etymology

Origin of Gibson girl

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Example Sentences

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Gibson girl

For that Gibson girl has finally whipped the one opponent that could keep her down: her own self-doubt and defensive truculence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Charles Dana Gibson was exquisitely euphemistic, translating masculinity into shoulder padding and chiseled chins on the Gibson man; femaleness into coy tendrils of hair and a suspicion of ankle in the Gibson girl.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the artistic canons of his day, the classical Greek figure was the ideal of feminine form and the hourglass Gibson girl in her geegaws and gilded garters the height of fashion.

From Time Magazine Archive

A framed Gibson girl was as important to the U.S. undergraduate of 30 years ago as a bulldog pipe and a pearl-buttoned reefer.

From Time Magazine Archive

She is it—a pukka Gibson girl, quite ducky, with the dearest bit of an accent, and Mamma Devar is gadding around with her in a mo-car.

From Cynthia's Chauffeur by Tracy, Louis