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singing girls

singing girls is the plural of singing girl.

Meaning of singing girl

Noun

singing girl (plural singing girls)

  1. A young woman of low social status (often enslaved) who performs as a musician and entertainer, especially in Asian societies.
    • She was a stranger in Palembang: she had fled from some one in the interior, and had lately entered the house of Tumunggung Nora Wangsa; who was patron, also, of another singing girl present, called Sahdeeah.1856, Walter M. Gibson, The Prison of Weltevreden: And a Glance at the East Indian Archipelago, Sampson Low Son & Company, page 213

Questions about singing girls

What is singing girls the plural of?
Singing girls is the plural of singing girl.

Words near singing girls in the dictionary

  1. singing flames
  2. singing for one's supper
  3. singing from the same hymn sheet
  4. singing from the same hymnbook
  5. singing girl
  6. singing girls
  7. singing ground
  8. singing grounds
  9. singing hinnies
  10. singing hinny
  11. singing Kumbaya

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