woman of the town

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With a woman of the town as interpreter, they sat on the grass in a shady churchyard and talked.

From Time Magazine Archive

Antyande, a Mpongwe woman of the town of Libreville, Gabun, is a leader of a company of ten or a dozen women in a certain native dance called “ivanga,” which is performed only by women.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

And lo, as they sat at meat did not a woman make her way to the feet of Jesus and there sit—aye, a woman of the town?

From The Coming of the King by Babcock, Bernie

Mr. Hayward adds that 'he married a woman of the town, became a celebrated member of the Four-in-Hand Club, and contrived to waste the whole of a fine fortune before he died.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by Boswell, James

A convict and a woman of the town.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence