Definition of Alderwomen

1. Noun. (plural of alderwoman) ¹

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Definition of Alderwomen

1. alderwoman [n] - See also: alderwoman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alderwomen

aldermanic
aldermanite
aldermanity
aldermanlike
aldermanly
aldermanries
aldermanry
aldermanship
aldermanships
aldermen
aldern
alderpeople
alderperson
alders
alderwoman
alderwomen (current term)
aldgates
aldicarb
aldicarbs
aldimine
aldimines
alditol
alditols
aldobiuronic acid
aldocortin
aldofuranose
aldofuranoses
aldoheptonic acid
aldoheptose
aldohexonic acid

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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