townswoman
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The verdant costume for just one townswoman involves 900 yards of ombré-dyed organza ribbon.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
Before his office was finished, a blizzard swirling outside brought him his first emergency case: a townswoman who had fallen on ice.
From Time Magazine Archive
He married a fellow townswoman, reached the Philippines in 1915.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today she has played a townswoman meeting a bus.
From Time Magazine Archive
The elder woman stumbled and whimpered and needed the constant support of his arm, walking like a townswoman from the knees.
From Huntingtower by John Buchan
The film, based on Rosalie Ham’s 2000 novel, turns on the promising idea that high fashion can be used as weapon, ensnaring the repulsive townswomen and underlining their ugly natures.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2016
I see all the miniature townsmen and townswomen stationed throughout this imaginary village.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
He embraced them both, and his mother was all in tears; but she accompanied him far on his way, and Claes went too, and many of the townsmen and townswomen.
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Charles de Coster
He stiffened slightly but perceptibly, like a man clicking the buckles of his ready armor, and two townswomen who listened gradually turned their backs, but remained near.
From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
Among the women who had come down to the harbor to see the departure of the fleet were two who bore no very close resemblance to the great body of the townswomen.
From She's All the World to Me by Sir Hall Caine
