Jastrow: גַּדֶּלֶת

גַּדֶּלֶת, גּוֹדֶלֶת f. (גדל II) hair-dresser. Kel. XV, 3 the sieve-like receptacle של גד׳ (Mish. ed. גּוֹדְלוֹת pl.) of the hair-dresser. Kidd. II, 3 ע"מ שיש לי בת או שפחה גד׳ וכ׳ (Y. a. Talm. ed. 49ᵇ מגודלת, Ar. מגדלת) under the condition that I shall have a (free) girl or a hand-maid as a hair-dresser, and she has none, or ‘that I shall have none’, and she has. Ib. 49ᵃ מי סברת מאי מגודלת גדולה ממש מאי מגודלת גדלת וכ׳ do you think m’guddeleth of the Mishnah means really a well-trained (girl or hand-maid)? It means a hair-dresser, when she may see, I want none to take up my words and carry them to my neighbors. Y. ib. II, 62ᶜ bot. כיני מתניתן בת לגוֹדַלְתֵּיךְ ושפחה לשמשותיך the Mishnah means this: a girl for thy hair-dresser (or thy governess), and a hand-maid for thy attendant. Lev. R. s. 19 נפיים לַגַּ׳ וְהַגַּ׳ וכ׳ let us win the favor of the (queen’s) hair-dresser (or governess), and the hair-dresser will win the queen and the queen the king; Gen. R. s. 100.