DCHP-3

hurdy-gurdy girl

B.C., Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a dance-hall girl who frequented the saloons and dance-halls of mining camps during the Cariboo gold rush.

See: hurdy-gurdy(def. 1)

Quotations

1914
An anomalous class of females known as the hurdy-gurdy girls made their appearance in the Cariboo.
1958
The fire is reputed to have been caused by a drunken miner lunging towards a hurdy-gurdy girl who was ironing her petticoats in the canvas-covered shed. . . .
1962
Anderson tells of the rich gold strikes, the town gamblers, the Hurdy-Gurdy girls and all the colourful excitement, the heartache and the joy of the gold rush days. . . .