colleen
Example Sentences
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Wilmington described O’Hara as “Hollywood’s ultimate fiery colleen, she has a classic chiseled Irish beauty and a thinly strapped temper that erupted smashingly into scathing tantrums or round-house rights.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2015
And the neighbours all pity the colleen so pretty,
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2015
The Hitch The inhabitants of a neighboring barren, windswept Irish island want parts in it, including the play’s misshapen title character and a sociopathic colleen named Slippy Helen.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2014
Debbie Reynolds was the madcap of the '50s, a slip of a colleen with a heart-shaped face.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Sure, an' she's a dainty colleen," O'Malley purred as he waited for the sergeant to swing down.
From A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F. by Rutherford George Montgomery
