girlery

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A brothel or show that features scantily clad women.

   • And it had struck him that the success of that meeting was accountable not only by the presence of the Irish galleries, but also of the Irish girleries.
   • Mikhail went over to the wooden partition and peeped into the “girlery,” their name for the small, one-windowed cubbyhole behind the partition.
2. 2

   A gallery or room set aside for female visitors to a male-only establishment.

   • The Girlery of the House of Commons.ᵀᵐ; ladies are very dissatisfied with their gallery at Westminster Palace.
   • Mrs. Hood has gone to the Girlery (pronounced gallery) of the Freemasons' Hall, to hear, see, and eat and drink all she can.
3. 3

   Girlhood.

   • Was there more unnatural a daughter in Christendom and Girlery, Mother's rolling eyes besought me to give her to understand.
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   1. 4

      Girlishness

      Girlishness; something or some collection of things associated with girls, or a girl herself, viewed as the embodiment of girlishness.

      • How the white-robed “girleries" perk and crow, as Haunting the blue ribbon of many honors he marches down the chapel steps and out, while fond parents and a German band shower their plaudits of congratulation on this college man.
      • There is enough girlery in Sayers' presentation of her protagonists to make the indictment plausible:
      • I lie hid and lurk in wait for the giggling girleries and leap out and shout and scatter them like chickens from the boot to the safe and flying four winds.

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• synonymgirldom