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
The same train has also brought a middle-aged townswoman and a baby.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today she has played a townswoman meeting a bus.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"Did you at that time know of his relation to your townswoman, Mrs. Clemmens?"
From Hand and Ring by Anna Katharine Green
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 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
Yes, said she, and these are his children; and this, pointing to Mercy, is one of my townswomen.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
But the experienced townswomen quoted some similar cases, in which the infants had grown stronger immediately after baptism.
From The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy by Samuel A. Binion
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