Quaker-ladies

[kwey-ker-ley-deez]

noun (used with a plural verb)

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Origin of Quaker-ladies

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

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Historical Examples of quaker-ladies

No; it was quaker-ladies, and they were blue as Sallys eyes.
Peggy Owen at Yorktown
Lucy Foster Madison