| 释义 |
† ˈchapwoman Obs.
[after chapman.]
A female dealer or hawker; a trafficking woman.
1624Massinger Renegado iii. ii, Is there hope, sir, He has got me a good chapwoman? a1652Brome Mad Couple ii. i. Wks. 1873 I. 23, I being none of the wisest Chapwoman. 1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4343/8 Mary Swinstead, late of St. Giles's in the Fields..Chapwoman. 1753Richardson Grandison (1781) III. xvii. 141 Methinks I would not be a petty-chapwoman, if I could help. 1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 261 The exhortations of chapmen and chapwomen. |