clubwoman
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of clubwoman
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Her mother was a tireless clubwoman who kept insisting that Elizabeth “do something” for the war effort but, with a baby on the way, Elizabeth felt she was doing plenty.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2018
Helen Hokinson was the recording secretary of the clubwoman, the gentle, penetrating chronicler of the upper-middle-class matron.
From Time Magazine Archive
One clubwoman, however, believed that the tree on which Judas hanged himself was no tree for Oklahoma.
From Time Magazine Archive
Accordingly, Dr. Little sought out Mrs� Grace Morrison Poole of Brockton, Mass.; long a prominent clubwoman and president of the Federation in 1932.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gymnasium was only half full when the girls escorted “the most distinguished clubwoman in America” across the campus and into the great hall.
From Molly Brown's Freshman Days by Speed, Nell
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