Misshood

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    girlhood dated, uncountable

    "In her old heart there is a corner as romantic still as when she used to read the Wild Irish Girl or the Scottish Chiefs in the days of her misshood."

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"In her old heart there is a corner as romantic still as when she used to read the Wild Irish Girl or the Scottish Chiefs in the days of her misshood."

Etymology

From miss + -hood.

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