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Girl Guide
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English
Proper noun
en proper noun Girl Guide
en UK Canada Attributive form of Girl Guides.
Girl Guide movement; Girl Guide organisation
en 1998 Astrid Taim Almaguin: A Highland History 129 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=UfwyATCQjwEC&pg=PA129&dq=%22Girl+Guide%22%7C%22Girl+Guides%22+-intitle:%22Girl%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0-5hT9nRGebJmAX02uiaCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Girl%20Guide%22%7C%22Girl%20Guides%22%20-intitle%3A%22Girl%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false From newspaper clippings of Lady Baden Povvell′s visit to the Ontario Girl Guide Camp near Sprucedale to photographs of the first Girl Guides and Brownies from the 1940s, Muriel Parker has filed it all.
en 1998 Cathy Converse Mainstays: Women Who Shaped BC 41 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=u52kjmxFNF4C&pg=PA41&dq=%22Girl+Guide%22%7C%22Girl+Guides%22+-intitle:%22Girl%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fulhT8OTDM3ImQWD_oi6CA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Girl%20Guide%22%7C%22Girl%20Guides%22%20-intitle%3A%22Girl%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false Bonnie MacQueen has looked critically into the Girl Guide movement in British Columbia and feels that Guiding was a double-edged sword for women.
en 2009 Ann Short Chirhart; Betty Wood Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times 1 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VqU2PsmlYpMC&pg=PA379&dq=%22Girl+Guide%22%7C%22Girl+Guides%22+-intitle:%22Girl%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WethT_6mE6HmmAXNn8CwCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Girl%20Guide%22%7C%22Girl%20Guides%22%20-intitle%3A%22Girl%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 379 She wrote a “manual of training” based on Boy Scout procedures and the British Girl Guide handbook, and she began organizing girls into Savannah′s first troops.
Noun
Girl Guide
en UK Canada A member of the Girl Guides, a world wide youth organisation for girls.
en 2002 Scott Mitchell Secret Toronto: The Unique Guidebook to Toronto's Hidden Sites, Sounds & Tastes 117 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=q8BUvl2nNTAC&pg=PA117&dq=%22Girl+Guide%22%7C%22Girl+Guides%22+-intitle:%22Girl%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2ORhT9HWOofHmQWY0Y2BCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Girl%20Guide%22%7C%22Girl%20Guides%22%20-intitle%3A%22Girl%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false It′s cookie season every spring, from early April to mid-May, when hundreds of Girl Guides hit the street flogging boxes of trets in their annual fund-raising drive.
en 2006 Richard Whittington-Egan; Molly Whittington-Egan Murder on File: The World′s Most Notorious Killers http://books.google.com.au/books?id=SZeFTLPGtigC&pg=PT245&dq=%22Girl+Guide%22%7C%22Girl+Guides%22+-intitle:%22Girl%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WethT_6mE6HmmAXNn8CwCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Girl%20Guide%22%7C%22Girl%20Guides%22%20-intitle%3A%22Girl%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered She was wearing the blue uniform of a Girl Guide.
en 2007 Susan Bivin Aller Juliette Low 32 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=G7JHyQ-EI44C&pg=PA32&dq=%22Girl+Guide%22%7C%22Girl+Guides%22+-intitle:%22Girl%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3O1hT7T1B8_QmAWSq4WxCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Girl%20Guide%22%7C%22Girl%20Guides%22%20-intitle%3A%22Girl%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false Daisy told the group that in Britain, Girl Guides wore uniforms.
Synonyms
Girl Scout US
Related terms
Girl Guiding
en People Scouting