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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

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 myself have never been a teenage female, but her going from stone-faced wench to laughing maniacally as she takes leave of the wiry-haired Mr. Sheen strikes me as a bit false.

From Washington Times ● May 22, 2016

Then he said Bess was a grasping wench and he had no intention of giving her my house.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

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

The show kicked off with an agrarian fantasia featuring rustic wenches tossing cider-apples at each other and children skipping round maypoles.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2012

But how is one to buy dresses, in these hard times, for growing wenches, even if they are one's own children, unless a little windfall drops into one's lap?

From Cuba Past and Present by Richard Davey

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

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