alderwomann.

1557 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 264 M^res. Brydgman shall go nexte unto the Alderwomen.

1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. F2 Item, an Elegy for Mistris Alderwoman.

1788 G. Hadley New & Compl. Hist. Kingston-upon-Hull xiii. 102/1 The controversy was carried on chiefly by the Alderwomen, and the wives of the Magistrates.

1821 E. N. Shannon Giuseppino 26 Now you expect to hear of his galanting, With alderwomen, actresses, countesses, And other elegantes, who looked enchanting, Some undisguised, and others in fine dresses.

1855 C. Sinclair Cross Purposes ii. 30 All Middlesex continued to be affronted that an Alderman and an Alderwoman should hang up their hat and bonnet in Torchester Abbey.

1680 J. Speed Batt upon Batt 9 A Matron of so good Renown, An Alder-woman of the sacred hill.

1732 N. Tindal Hist. Essex 71 A Guild of Women of our Lady's Lights, of which there was an Alderwoman and two Wardens.

1854 T. Parker Serm. in Women's Rights Tracts ii. 17 Suppose woman had a share in the municipal regulation of Boston, and there were as many alderwomen as aldermen, as many common-council women as common-council men.

1895 N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 267 When women shall have become..mayoresses and alderwomen.

1900 Daily News 24 May 3/1 The London Government Act of last year..prohibited women serving as alderwomen or councillors on borough Councils.

1964 Jet 19 Nov. 14 Glamorous Mrs. Vel Phillips, a Milwaukee Democratic alderwoman, was not running for re-election.

2008 Chicago Tribune 21 Apr. (Midwest Final ed.) ii. 5/2 Texas statutes governing municipalities such as McLean were last updated in 1911, apparently never anticipating a need for titles such as alderwoman or alderperson.