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Definition of Alderwomen
1. alderwoman [n] - See also: alderwoman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alderwomen
Literary usage of Alderwomen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis by George William Curtis (1894)
"Suppose there should arise a board of alderwomen, what would become of Boston ?
As the good old deacon used to say, "Suppose, fellow-sinners, ..."
2. The Spirit of Seventy-six: Or, The Coming Woman, a Prophetic Drama, Followed by Curtis, Daniel Sargent, Ariana Wormeley Curtis (1868)
"New order of the Board of alderwomen, " Any man, found absent from his home after
ten o'clock at night, fined for a misdemeanour. ..."
3. Emma Lady Hamilton from New and Original Sources and Documents: Together by Walter Sydney Sichel (1907)
"... Law, Physics, and Divinity, and with a Naked Exhibition of Asses stuffed of
their ermine, viz. of County Just- asses, Mares, alderwomen and ..."
4. Transactions of the National Council of Women of the United States by Rachel (Foster) Avery (1891)
"Suppose there should arise a Board of alderwomen, what would become of Boston ?
As the good old deacon used to say, ' Suppose, fellow-sinners, ..."
5. Addresses at the Celebration of the Completion of the Twenty-fifth Academic by Vassar College, George William Curtis, James Monroe Taylor (1890)
"Suppose there should arise a Board of alderwomen, what would become of Boston ?
As the good old deacon used to say, " Suppose, fellow-sinners, ..."
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