Gibson Girl
A personification of American ideal feminine beauty around the beginning of the 20th century, depicted as voluptuous but ladylike and fashionable.
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Born ~1890 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
If you have lots of red/blonde hair piled on your head in a sort of "Gibson Girl" style, striped stinging insects fly into it and can't get out. So then you put your hand on your head to figure out what's happening an…
Gibson Girl Ice Cream Parlor Scrim Starts Coming Down in Disneyland
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A personification of American ideal feminine beauty around the beginning of the 20th century, depicted as voluptuous but ladylike and fashionable.
“If you have lots of red/blonde hair piled on your head in a sort of "Gibson Girl" style, striped stinging insects fly into it and can't get out. So then you put your hand on your head to figure out what's happening and get stung in the hand. Once happened when I was teaching.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Gibson Girl Ice Cream Parlor Scrim Starts Coming Down in Disneyland”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(US, military, slang, historical) A survival radio transmitter carried by aircraft on over-water operations.
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