Trijntje Keever

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Trijntje Cornelisdochter Keever (10 or 16 April 1616 – 2 July 1633), nicknamed De Groote Meid ('The Tall Girl'), was a Dutchwoman alleged to be the tallest female in recorded history, standing 9 Amsterdam feet, an archaic measurement used in the Netherlands which measured 1 foot as 28.313 cm or 0.929 feet. In modern measurements, she measured 2.60 metres (8 ft 6.75 in) tall at the time of her death at age seventeen.

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