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

They all know her mother was a woman of the town from Nettleton, that followed one of those Mountain fellows up to his place and lived there with him like a heathen.

From Summer by Wharton, Edith

I was a poor woman of the town.

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

We see perched aloft on the wooden horses about to be whirled around, a nobleman with his broad ribbon, a shoe-black, an old woman, a wigged clergyman, and a woman of the town.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James

A convict and a woman of the town.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence