Meanings
plural lift girls
- A female lift (elevator) operator.
Selfridges wouldn't have an escalator until 1952, but then it was famous for its gilded electrical lifts (and lift girls).
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 83
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