girleries
girleries is the plural of girlery.
Meaning of girlery
Noun (1)
girlery (plural girleries)
- 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.1895, Photography - Volume 7, page 470
- 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.1864, Fun - Volume 6, page 188
Noun (2)
girlery (countable and uncountable, plural girleries)
- Girlhood.
- W. Hazlitt is in town. I took him to see a very pretty girl professedly, where there were two young girls—the very head and sum of the girlery was two young girls —they neither laughed nor sneered nor giggled nor whispered—but they were young girls—and he sat and frowned blacker and blacker...1806, Charles Lamb, Letter to Wordsworth
- 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.1903, Hamilton Literary Magazine - Volume 38, page 121
Questions about girleries
- What is girleries the plural of?
- Girleries is the plural of girlery.
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