land girl

noun

1. a girl or woman who does farm work, esp in wartime

Example Sentences

A 102-year-old woman who served as a land girl during World War Two has recalled the betrayal she felt when letters from her sweetheart were kept from her by a disapproving mother.

From BBC

A few months later, she was sent off for Land Girl training, where Ron visited her and sent her coded letters in an attempt to outwit her mother.

From BBC

"The entire space, the whole scene is one dense mass of people in the gayest colours: red, white and blue rosettes, red, white and blue hats, streamers, flags. The Queen Victoria Memorial is covered with people - a land girl sitting on the bronze lions, a Wren sitting up behind her, flags everywhere."

From BBC

She had been a land girl in the war, doing her bit for Britain by working in agriculture, and many of her films circle around the different places she called home: the stately family pile in Somerset; her house in north London, whose demolition she chronicled in one of her films; and her south London flat.

From The Guardian

Lace capes were tossed atop periwinkle-blue shirting which was layered under loden Land Girl separates.

From New York Times