| 单词 | starchwoman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstarchwoman starchwoman n. now historical a woman who sells starch or starches linen. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > sellers of other specific things soaper?c1225 oilman1275 smear-monger1297 upholder1333 basket-seller?1518 broom-seller?1518 upholster1554 rod-woman1602 starchwoman1604 pin manc1680 colour seller1685 potato-woman1697 printseller1700 rag-seller1700 Greenwich barber1785 sandboy1821 iceman1834 umbrella man1851 fly-boy1861 snuff-boxera1871 pedlar1872 snake-boy1873 bric-a-brac man1876 tinwoman1884 resurrectionist1888 butch1891 paanwallah1955 1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale sig. E4 Trulls passing too and fro in the wash-shape of Laundresses, as your Bawdes about London in the manner of Starch-women. 1901 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 9 585 Incidental references scattered through Elizabethan literature show that the starchwomen were a numerous class. 2011 N. Korda Labors Lost iii. 141 The wooden stand on which starchwomen set ruffs and the lines on which they hung them to dry. < as lemmas |
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