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
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
"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
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
Most of our neighbours go to bed shortly after the sun, but to townswomen as we are it seemed impossible to sleep before eleven.
From Six Women and the Invasion by Gabrielle Yerta
On the 12th of August, 1887, the editor of a paper in a little town in Illinois had to submit to this ignominious operation at the hands of about five hundred of his townswomen.
From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Jack Allyn
