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land girl

British  

noun

  1. a girl or woman who does farm work, esp in wartime

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A 102-year-old woman who served as a land girl during World War Two has recalled the betrayal she felt when letters from her sweetheart were kept from her by a disapproving mother.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024

Naturally the two ladies were dressed as an ARP warden and land girl.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2015

Thora Hird's performance as the stout-hearted land girl seeing off the Nazis is a joy, as is the infant Harry Fowler, playing the Just-William-ish lad who has a role to play in defending these islands.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2010

If she dropped her end she would simply leave, gather her things from her room into her suitcase, and go to Scotland and work as a land girl.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

I had intended to become a land girl, a postwoman, and a bus conductress by way of rounding off my career—but the Armistice intervened!

From Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

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