Noun
State or time of being a girl.
Source: Webster's dictionaryShe shuttled between impish girlhood and neurotic womanhood. Robert Silverberg
All you are seeing is your own nostalgia for your girlhood trips up here into the hills, which were no doubt colored with the pleasantries of youth and idealism, which is-won't you admit it?-finally just a form of ignorance. Samuel R. Delany
Wil Wheaton, Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes were all the early formidable crushes of my girlhood. Autumn Reeser
It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girl's identity to appearance. Peggy Orenstein
For the production, she made a Ku Klux Klan costume from a white crepe dress and wore a boy's wig. Mitchell, M., et al., Before Scarlett: girlhood writings of Margaret Mitchell, p. 131-132. Source: Internet
Mitchell, M., et al., Before Scarlett: girlhood writings of Margaret Mitchell, p. 138. She also joined the Literary Club and had two stories published in the yearbook: Little Sister and Sergeant Terry. Source: Internet