wench

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“You definitely don’t feel like a device or a prop and you don’t feel like the sexy wench or the mother,” said Olivia Cooke, who plays the adult Alicent Hightower, longtime friend to Rhaenyra.

From Washington Times • Aug. 18, 2022

It isn’t really fair to be an unpleasant wench all the time, just because I’m mad that I didn’t spend enough time writing, so … yeah, that poem.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2021

“The word wench is definitely not something that medieval people would use for a woman, especially in public, because that was a really insulting thing to call her,” Mitchell said.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2018

Other changes have elicited fewer complaints than the deleted wench auction.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2018

“My daughter is the bravest wench in Kyrria.”

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine