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Some couples want a flower girl in the wedding party to enhance the aisle with flower petals. Some view the flower girl as symbolically leading the bride forward, from childhood to adulthood. The flower girl follows the maid of honor, and may carry wrapped candies, confetti, a single bloom, a ball of flowers, or bubbles instead of flower petals.
Eliza (from Lisson Grove, London) is a Cockney flower seller, who comes to Professor Henry Higgins asking for elocution lessons, after a chance encounter at Covent Garden. Higgins goes along with it for the purposes of a wager: That he can turn her into the toast of elite London society.
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
Sing-song girls were popularized in Han Bangqing's 1892 novel Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai (later adapted into the 1998 film Flowers of Shanghai). Sing-song girls play a minor role in Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune ( Hija de la fortuna ).
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In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871.
The Flower Girl is a mid 19th-century painting by Irish-American artist Charles Cromwell Ingham. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a young woman holding a bouquet of flowers. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a young woman holding a bouquet of flowers.
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