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
Perhaps the only small-time artist who ever breaks even on a Manhattan recital is Philadelphia's Mrs. Florence Foster Jenkins, a clubwoman coloratura now in her 70s.
From Time Magazine Archive
He dismisses such suggestions with the same scorn that he once made use of when a clubwoman asked him what butterflies were for.
From Time Magazine Archive
His slim, gracious wife, Georgiana Farr Sibley, mother of six, is a busy clubwoman and good speaker, member of the National Council's Woman's Auxiliary.
From Time Magazine Archive
While she reveled in society, she was essentially a clubwoman, and nothing delighted her so much as debating and delivering addresses.
From I Spy by Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
