needle-girl
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A girl or young woman who is employed doing sewing and simple embroidery.
Example Sentences
- "Her complexion is pure and warm, though pale, as if from too close confinement; for I have now no doubt that she is a needle-girl."
- "Indeed I soon, found that the poor needle-girl was not the orphan with property."
- "There is the needle-girl, with her helplessness, her nerveless imbecility, her utter ignorance, her dolorous prettiness, her thriftless marriage, her half-starved children dying about her like flies."