Talk:bargirl

I thought Bar-Girl was a 20 th century word. I was rather amazed to find it in (p155) Memoirs of Baron de Tott. London. Pub Robinson. 1785.

"...she was of middling size, extremely robust, and one who might have passed for a handsome Bar-Girl."

The girl refereed to was a slave being offered to the Turkish Sultan.

Sounds like a bar-girl to me. However, it may have been a different type of bar.

My concise (1930) OED gives: "Bar ...(Mus.) ...immaterial barrier."

1.46.99.244 07:57, 23 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Were drinking establishments even called "bars" that long ago? I thought they were taverns, inns, or houses. Equinox ◑ 02:43, 18 January 2016 (UTC)