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Girly girl is a term for a girl or woman who presents herself in a traditionally feminine way. This may include wearing pink, using make-up, using perfume, having long hair, having long nails, dressing in dresses, skirts, pantyhoses and heels, and engaging in activities that are traditionally associated with femininity, such as talking about relationships.
The English word girl first appeared during the Middle Ages between 1250 and 1300 CE and came from the Anglo-Saxon word gerle (also spelled girle or gurle). [3] The Anglo-Saxon word gerela meaning dress or clothing item also seems to have been used as a metonym in some sense. [ 1 ]
In many variants, the witch-like character that presents the girls with the choice of casket is replaced by personifications of the twelve months of the year. [3] According to scholar Warren Roberts, this narrative appears in Southeastern Europe, namely, Italy, Greece, [4] Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria.
The words femininity and womanhood are first recorded in Chaucer around 1380. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In 1949, French intellectual Simone de Beauvoir wrote that "no biological, psychological or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society" and "one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman". [ 12 ]
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"Lolita" is an English-language term defining a young girl as "precociously seductive." [1] It originates from Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita, which portrays the narrator Humbert's sexual obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl whom he privately calls "Lolita", the Spanish nickname for Dolores (her given name). [2]