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Definition of Alderwoman
1. [n -WOMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alderwoman
Literary usage of Alderwoman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Volume of English Miscellanies Illustrating the History and Language of by James Raine (1890)
"alderwoman, sb. The wife of an alderman. 1587. Feb. 1. ff. Trin. Church, Hull,
PR Elizabeth Dalton, ..."
2. Publications of the Surtees Society by Surtees Society (1890)
"The wife of an alderman. 1587. Feb. 1. H. Trin. Church, Hull, PR Elizabeth Dalton,
alderwoman, bur. 1668. Dec. 29, Ibid. Mrs. Priscilla Lindley, alderwoman, ..."
3. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1905)
"... and the munificent founder of Bedford School.1 The earliest instance of the
word " alderwoman " given in Dr. Murray's New English Dictionary, ..."
4. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1914)
"Item: an elegy for Mistris alderwoman Upon the death of one of her coach-mares
She priz'd above her daughter, being crooked e Dia. The more beast she! ..."
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