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Examples
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An explosion of hysterical pipings causes the camera to cut to the front row of the audience, where a gaggle of girleens are speaking in tongues and shuddering from the internal impact of their own gender.
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"Come, girleens, and let's give them a proper Irish welcome," said the Squire, standing on the steps of the old house.
Light O' the Morning L. T. Meade 1884
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There are tears in my eyes for the families of these girleens.
Politics.ie Emerald Green 2009
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"collogue," as they expressed it; but also the little gossoons in their ragged trousers and bare feet, and the girleens, with their curly hair, and roguish dark-blue eyes, to scuttle in also.
Light O' the Morning L. T. Meade 1884
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