clubwoman

Example Sentences

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Her mother was a tireless clubwoman who kept insisting that Elizabeth “do something” for the war effort but, with a baby on the way, Elizabeth felt she was doing plenty.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2018

John Lane Hancock, elderly Mrs. Logan is not only an active art patron, an avid clubwoman, but a poet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Illig has the advantage of being not only a clubwoman in charge of the Federation's division of health, but a qualified speaker on cancer prevention.

From Time Magazine Archive

Helen Hokinson was the recording secretary of the clubwoman, the gentle, penetrating chronicler of the upper-middle-class matron.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is all very well to treat the puzzled clubwoman as a joke.

From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Bostwick, Arthur E.