flower girl

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noun

a young girl at a wedding ceremony who precedes the bride and carries or scatters flowers in her path.

British. a woman who sells flowers in the street.

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Origin of flower girl

First recorded in 1780–90

Words nearby flower girl

flower-de-luce, flowered, flowerer, floweret, flower fly, flower girl, flower head, flowering, flowering currant, flowering dogwood, flowering flax

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How to use flower girl in a sentence

The tabloid coverage also pitted Markle against her sister-in-law Kate Middleton—with a report emerging six months after Harry and Markle’s wedding that as a bride-to-be she made Middleton cry over dresses for the flower girls.
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Last in-flight movie I saw was Flower Girl, a famous DPRK movie that was written by Kim Il-sung.
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But he was gazing at the Flower Girl, and for the first time she thought him rather good to look at.
Sandman's Goodnight Stories|Abbie Phillips Walker
His heart beat very fast, but he kept on playing and fixed his eyes on the little Flower Girl.
Sandman's Goodnight Stories|Abbie Phillips Walker

I was to have been a flower girl in the village and walked with our guest of honor of the day, Mr. Washington.
Boys and Girls of Colonial Days|Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
He disputed the price with the flower-girl, got it at a reduction, and went on.
The Pacific Triangle|Sydney Greenbie
Like the flower girl in Galsworthy's play, we have made a very considerable confusion of the life of joy and the joy of life.
A Preface to Politics|Walter Lippmann

British Dictionary definitions for flower girl

flower girl

noun

a girl or woman who sells flowers in the street

US and Scot a young girl who carries flowers in a procession, esp at weddings

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