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woman of the town
noun as in woman of the streets
Example Sentences
We see perched aloft on the wooden horses about to be whirled around, a nobleman with his broad ribbon, a shoe-black, an old woman, a wigged clergyman, and a woman of the town.
It was in the last named church that a pious woman of the town noticed one day a gray, emaciated man resting, among a group of children, on the steps of the altar, in his face a light of convincing holiness.
In six scenes the miserable career of a woman of the town is traced out remorselessly from its first facile beginning to its shameful and degraded end.
A Hessian major and captain at last fought a duel about a woman of the town, in which glorious cause the major was run through the body and killed.
A woman of the town was nursing her child, and had prepared a sucking-bottle for him, and had not gone out to ply her sad trade for two days.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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