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spaewife

/ ˈspeɪˌwəɪf /

noun

  1. a woman who can supposedly foretell the future

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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This much having said, Katheline the good spaewife fell on sleep.

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Her mother was, we believe, the most noted spaewife of the district; and it was popularly understood that she had escaped at least three times, in semblance of an enormous hare, from the pursuit of the Laird of Lockhart's grews.

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So the name of Spaewife was pinned to the mare, and eventually she was bred to an Australian stallion.

According to McCarthy, everything turned on a mix-up over two horses, both named Spaewife.

While her husband sat at his carousals, and handing the beverage to his followers and the domestics of the house, Elspeth sat examining the lines upon the palms of the hands of the maid-servants—pursuing her calling as a spaewife.

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