Scotchwoman
Americannoun
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Scotchwomen
plural
noun
Commonly Confused
See Scotch.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Scotchwoman
1810–20; Scotch(man) ( def. ) + -woman
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After graduating from Vassar in 1947, Quigley returned to San Francisco where the very same astrologer, an elderly Scotchwoman, took her under her wing.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only question she had to decide was whether she would be a match for the Scotchwoman.
From A Duel by Richard Marsh
But though I disliked the familiarity, I saw immediately that the good creature, a bony Scotchwoman of at least fifty summers, had not had the least intention of joking me, still less of vexing me.
From Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell
The greatest of these, beyond all question, was Charles Forbes de Montalembert, whose mother was a Scotchwoman, and his father French ambassador in Sweden.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
I felt intuitively that I could not say to this Scotchwoman, that Delia Beaseley was neither widow nor wife.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
I have often admired Scotchwomen of a pronounced Celtic type.
From Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell
His sisters, who, taking after their mother, were all true Scotchwomen, now urged upon him to comply with Archie's request and accompany him to Lanark.
From In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The concern originated in a small shop, where, some fifty years ago, a Scotchwomen sold candy, with her two boys as clerks.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
These two were Scotchwomen by birth, and both were widows.
From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English by Egerton Castle
It's away from the railway; it's away from the high-road: it's kept by a decent, respectable Scotchwoman—" "Decent, respectable Scotchwomen who keep inns," interposed Geoffrey, "don't cotton to young ladies who are traveling alone.
From Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
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