woman of the town

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With a woman of the town as interpreter, they sat on the grass in a shady churchyard and talked.

From Time Magazine Archive

He gave us an entertaining account of Bet Flint, a woman of the town, who, with some eccentrick talents and much effrontery, forced herself upon his acquaintance.

From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Osgood, Charles Grosvenor

I was a woman of the town, I had a child, they took my child.

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

In and out, to and fro; the social leader, the shop-girl, the maid, the woman of the town, the actress, the thin old spinster and the fat matron, here might they be found.

From Half a Rogue by MacGrath, Harold

She looks more than her age, of moderate height, well made, neither blatant nor ill at ease, with nothing of the air of a woman of the town.

From A Book of Remarkable Criminals by Irving, Henry Brodribb