fishwife
Example Sentences
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Her high-profile roles have been peppered with projects like a concept album about the Pendle Witch Trials, playing Hamlet on stage - and now writing a play about a Hull fishwife.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2017
“Angela Carter” is a flickering entity, part fishwife and part fairy.
From Slate • Mar. 14, 2017
A Canadian waitress who swears like a fishwife goes on holiday to Boracay.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2016
In Part 2, we turn to the story of glamorous and inaccessible Mathilde—who, we learn, was born in France, as Aurélie, her mother a fishwife in Nantes, her father a stonemason.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2015
Mordred said, in his equivocal musical voice, that he could understand a fishwife, but not a fish mistress.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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