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/lˈɪtəl rɛd rˈaɪdɪŋ hʊd/ Listen

Little Red Riding Hood

noun

A girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother.

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... girl has been sent on an errand along a lonely road leading out of the village. It may be that like little Red Riding Hood in the nursery tale she is carrying some dainties to her grandmother. A basket of strawberries hangs on her arm, and her apron also seems to be filled with something, for it is gathered up in front like a bag, the corners dropping ...

— Sir Joshua Reynolds - A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the - Painter with Introduction and Interpretation • Estelle M. Hurll

... there was one from Little Red Riding Hood, over whose sad fate Joanna used to cry. As many other children have heard about Red Riding Hood, they will be glad to have good news of her. Here is ...

— The Nursery, January 1873, Vol. XIII. - A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People • Various

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