wench
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“The word wench is definitely not something that medieval people would use for a woman, especially in public, because that was a really insulting thing to call her,” Mitchell said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2018
Other changes have elicited fewer complaints than the deleted wench auction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2018
Bosley Crowther of The Times called her character “a selfish, ambitious, fickle wench whose tender and lovable qualities might be compared to those of a threshing machine.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2017
To control it, he’ll use a “sip-and-puff” device that enables him to use his breath to move the rudder and operate a wench that controls the sails.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2017
When Julia, the tall wench, ate too many grapes from Madame Edith’s arbor and was sick all night, Areida nursed her, although Julia’s friends slept soundly.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
Because the funny thing about the witch trials is this: it wasn’t, really, those hysterical little girls and so-called temptress wenches who did all this damage to America’s soul.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2015
Then it’s off to the ocean, where the crew will test her systems in deep saltwater, including the sonar and over-the-side gear, like wenches and cranes.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 22, 2014
“It was really important to us that if we were going to explore this world, gender had to be a part of that, well beyond just stock wenches and the occasional cross-dressing pirate,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2014
The show kicked off with an agrarian fantasia featuring rustic wenches tossing cider-apples at each other and children skipping round maypoles.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2012
Ah, these wenches fresh and strong, Surely they could never be Ghostly hell-cats, nor the maids Of the dark queen Proserpine.
From Atta Troll by Heinrich Heine
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's farce in which wenching Falstaff involves himself in domestic infelicity and intrigue, will tour 30 weeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Commissioned at 14, James Wolfe had earned a reputation as a priggish martinet who scorned wining and wenching but relished the meanest chores in his scramble for rank.
From Time Magazine Archive
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