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Alloa-born artist David Allan created drawings of ordinary people going about their daily lives in Edinburgh, including soldiers, coalmen, fishwives, sedan chair porters, firemen and officers of the city guard.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2021

In Sutcliffe’s sepia-toned prints, Whitby appears misty, moody and — if you replace the somberly dressed fishwives with tourists — almost identical to today.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2015

But that was the Ryan Women: fishwives to the marrow, they were always ready to fight and knew the places that would cut deepest.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2012

In conflicting keys, restless violins traced his vagaries of flower girls and Creoles in the Debussy manner, gossiping women, fishwives taken rag and bone from Stravinsky.

From Time Magazine Archive

The captains and commanders aigued over the maps like fishwives over a bucket of crabs.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin