flower girl
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2.1
- noun
- /ˈflaʊər ɡɜrl/
:
niña de las flores
- My sister was 5 years old and the flower girl for their wedding.
- bridesmaids and flower girl
- flower girl at the wedding
- flower girl dress
Two people got married, and Emma Chamberlain was the flower girl.
- Two people got married, and Emma Chamberlain was the flower girl.
- I spoke to his sister, his sister's, his niece was supposed to be one of our flower girls.
Examples
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You are going to be the prettiest flower girl there.
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I was the flower girl at my sister's wedding, too.
Fiction book (1992) -
Well, we wanted you to be our flower girl.
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And I will be the flower girl!
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Yeah, but I was the flower girl at his wedding, okay?
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Did you have a flower girl?
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Do you know how hard it is to run in a flower girl dress?
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Sarah was the flower girl.
Fiction book (2000) -
Her little daughter was sitting below her on the steps, dressed up as a flower girl.
Fiction book (1999) -
Little Riley served as the flower girl when her uncle Chad got married.
Synonyms
A young boy who walks in a wedding scattering petals
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a woman or girl who sells flowers' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'flower' (the item being sold/held) with 'girl' (a young female); this noun–noun composition is a straightforward, compositional pattern common across languages. Even potential secondary uses (e.g. a wedding 'flower girl') remain literal extensions rather than idiomatic shifts, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the basic meaning.
Etymology
Flower girl comes from the simple image of a young girl walking ahead of the bride and scattering flowers down the aisle. So it means 'a young girl who carries flowers and leads the procession at a wedding'.