flower girl
noun/ˈflaʊə ɡɜːl/
/ˈflaʊər ɡɜːrl/
- a very young girl who walks behind the bride at a wedding and holds flowers or throws flower petals. She is usually a member of the family of one of the people who are being married.
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- (British English) (especially in the past) a woman or girl who sells flowers in the street
- Shaw's play about Eliza Doolittle, the cockney flower girl
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