wench
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“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
Bosley Crowther of The Times called her character “a selfish, ambitious, fickle wench whose tender and lovable qualities might be compared to those of a threshing machine.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2017
To control it, he’ll use a “sip-and-puff” device that enables him to use his breath to move the rudder and operate a wench that controls the sails.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2017
"I'd not have thought it, by that wench on the waterfront."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
After those preliminaries, the singers lined up for a home-cooked meal served by the community’s unheralded stalwarts, the self-described galley wenches.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2016
Because the funny thing about the witch trials is this: it wasn’t, really, those hysterical little girls and so-called temptress wenches who did all this damage to America’s soul.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2015
Then it’s off to the ocean, where the crew will test her systems in deep saltwater, including the sonar and over-the-side gear, like wenches and cranes.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 22, 2014
He samples Pee-wee Herman, and goes out of his way to say "gluteus maximus" and "wenches" instead of ruder, more common rapper words.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2012
This is a hard world in winter for wolves and wenches and poor rogues like me.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Commissioned at 14, James Wolfe had earned a reputation as a priggish martinet who scorned wining and wenching but relished the meanest chores in his scramble for rank.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's farce in which wenching Falstaff involves himself in domestic infelicity and intrigue, will tour 30 weeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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