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girl guide

American  

noun

  1. (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of a British organization of girls Girl Guides founded in England by Lord Robert S. S. Baden-Powell and his sister Lady Agnes as a sister organization of the Girl Scouts.


Girl Guide British  

noun

  1. See Guide

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Etymology

Origin of girl guide

First recorded in 1905–10

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Elsewhere they reveal a wonderful selection of found ephemera including a 1968 "good girl guide".

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2011

At the Shanghai Industrial Exhibition, I asked a girl guide who used all the perfumes and lipsticks � in twelve shades of pink, purple-red and orange � that were on display.

From Time Magazine Archive

So after high school she went to work as a girl guide in a Bethlehem Steel plant, and then it was on to New York and the Plaza Five modeling agency.

From Time Magazine Archive

Them’s his long suit,” declared the girl guide.

From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Emerson, Alice B.

But Ruth Fielding suddenly realized what the girl guide meant.

From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Emerson, Alice B.