Gender
See -woman.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of townswoman
Example Sentences
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The verdant costume for just one townswoman involves 900 yards of ombré-dyed organza ribbon.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
Before his office was finished, a blizzard swirling outside brought him his first emergency case: a townswoman who had fallen on ice.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same train has also brought a middle-aged townswoman and a baby.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today she has played a townswoman meeting a bus.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was the townswoman; self-assured in her way.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)
The film, based on Rosalie Ham’s 2000 novel, turns on the promising idea that high fashion can be used as weapon, ensnaring the repulsive townswomen and underlining their ugly natures.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2016
I see all the miniature townsmen and townswomen stationed throughout this imaginary village.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
Your own beauty, my fair townswomen, would have beamed upon you, out of my scene.
From Main Street (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
At the windows the townswomen were clasping their hands, and everywhere one could see faces covered with tears of joy.
From The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy by Binion, Samuel A.
On the 12th of August, 1887, the editor of a paper in a little town in Illinois had to submit to this ignominious operation at the hands of about five hundred of his townswomen.
From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Allyn, Jack
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