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woman about town

American  

noun

  1. a socially active, sophisticated woman who frequents fashionable nightclubs, theaters, restaurants, etc.


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The best moments are uncanny impersonations – Dame Judi Dench as a shoplifter, Dame Maggie Smith doing audition tapes and Angela Merkel as a vain and frivolous woman about town.

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2016

He did have a small cadre of zealous supporters, the most prominent of whom was Bess Myerson, Miss America of 1945, the city's former consumer affairs commissioner and now a savvy political woman about town.

From Time Magazine Archive

Who ever spoke of a woman about town?

From The Napoleon of Notting Hill by Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham)

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