slattern

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The slatterns gossiped from house to house, the heels of their shoes clacking as they went, and cried that this was what came of being too thrifty.

From Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

One of the slatterns behind the doorway actually stood in clogs to watch the dancer.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

I've noted the wedded life of such,   Oft finding them slatterns void of love; And none need wonder so very much   If I value high my turtle dove.

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas

But fortunately for the few slatterns in Thorhaven, she did not use her power.

From The Privet Hedge by Buckrose, J. E.

In the well-dressed women I saw to-night, I had great difficulty in recognising the slatterns of the other morning.

From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Graham, Maria