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applewoman

noun

Etymology

From apple + woman.

  1. inherited from wīfmann
  2. inherited from womman
  3. compounded as applewoman — “apple + woman”

Definitions

  1. A woman who sells apples outdoors.

    • […] he had formerly quarrelled with Sir Nicholas Rainton when he was Lord Mayor of London, for prohibiting an Apple-woman to sell Apples on the Lords Day within Pauls Church-yard […]
    • […] we had dragged on near six Weeks of passive Existence without seeing a Soul but that old Apple-woman Sir Anthony, who is as disagreeable as the Place he lives in;

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