fishwife

If the history of the hoax is an ancient and labyrinthine city, then Young has explored every alleyway, gossiped with every fishwife, drunk in every bar in town.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2017

Her high-profile roles have been peppered with projects like a concept album about the Pendle Witch Trials, playing Hamlet on stage - and now writing a play about a Hull fishwife.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2017

A Canadian waitress who swears like a fishwife goes on holiday to Boracay.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2016

In Part 2, we turn to the story of glamorous and inaccessible Mathilde—who, we learn, was born in France, as Aurélie, her mother a fishwife in Nantes, her father a stonemason.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2015

Mordred said, in his equivocal musical voice, that he could understand a fishwife, but not a fish mistress.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Alloa-born artist David Allan created drawings of ordinary people going about their daily lives in Edinburgh, including soldiers, coalmen, fishwives, sedan chair porters, firemen and officers of the city guard.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2021

In Sutcliffe’s sepia-toned prints, Whitby appears misty, moody and — if you replace the somberly dressed fishwives with tourists — almost identical to today.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2015

But that was the Ryan Women: fishwives to the marrow, they were always ready to fight and knew the places that would cut deepest.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012

Roman fishwives cursed police who gathered them up and arrested bewildered loiterers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Along the span were shops and stalls of every sort; weavers and lacemakers displayed their wares cheek by jowl with glassblowers, candle- makers, and fishwives selling eels and oysters.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin