Camp Fire Girl

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noun

a girl who is a member of Camp Fire, formerly Camp Fire Boys and Girls of America , a national organization of young people with the aim of building self-esteem, promoting a healthy lifestyle, developing character, and teaching leadership skills.

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Origin of Camp Fire Girl

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby Camp Fire Girl

campesino, campestral, camp fever, campfire, Camp Fire Boy, Camp Fire Girl, camp follower, campground, camphene, camphire, camphol

How to use Camp Fire Girl in a sentence

But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
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The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.
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Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.
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Pitchfork called him a “a rap-obsessed misfit from a summer camp who freestyles poorly” who is “ridiculous without knowing it.”
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The brother of a girl who made her debut in New Orleans society was shaking his fists in excitement.
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Was he really condemned to an eternal solitude because of the girl who had died so many years ago?
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The two little Pontelliers were with him, and he carried Madame Ratignolle's little girl in his arms.
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"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.
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In the most perfect stillness, we arrived within two hundred paces of the enemy's camp.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various