townswoman
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The verdant costume for just one townswoman involves 900 yards of ombré-dyed organza ribbon.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
The same train has also brought a middle-aged townswoman and a baby.
From Time Magazine Archive
He married a fellow townswoman, reached the Philippines in 1915.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today she has played a townswoman meeting a bus.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ha! my townswoman," exclaimed Sir Robert, with every appearance of surprise.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
The film, based on Rosalie Ham’s 2000 novel, turns on the promising idea that high fashion can be used as weapon, ensnaring the repulsive townswomen and underlining their ugly natures.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2016
I see all the miniature townsmen and townswomen stationed throughout this imaginary village.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
O wretched townswomen, no foe, no camp of Argive men671 Ye burn, but your own hopes ye burn.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
But the experienced townswomen quoted some similar cases, in which the infants had grown stronger immediately after baptism.
From The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy by Samuel A. Binion
He stiffened slightly but perceptibly, like a man clicking the buckles of his ready armor, and two townswomen who listened gradually turned their backs, but remained near.
From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
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