Scotchwoman
Americannoun
plural
Scotchwomennoun
Commonly Confused
See Scotch.
Etymology
Origin of Scotchwoman
1810–20; Scotch(man) ( def. ) + -woman
Example Sentences
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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
A confidential person was obtained, herself a Scotchwoman, to carry the child into Fife, and there to expose it, under the circumstances and with the provision already mentioned.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
Frances Wright, a noble Scotchwoman, a friend of General Lafayette, early imbibed a love for freedom and a knowledge of the principles on which it is based.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted
Of her biography we know no more than that, a Scotchwoman by birth, she married a French diplomatist, who, in 1860, was serving the State as French ambassador to the Court of Pekin.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport
"Yes, so she is, to see if they are 'Central'; had she not been sold by my b�te noir, I should say she was a canny Scotchwoman."
From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Savigny, Annie Gregg
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