Brewer's: Child

at one time, meant a female infant, and was the correlative of boy.

“Mercy on `s! A barne, a very pretty barne. A boy or a child, I wonder?” —Shakespeare: Winter's Tale, iii. 3.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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