Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
oyster-woman .
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Examples
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He looks as pale as the visard of the ghost which cries so miserably at the Theatre, like an oyster-wife, "Hamlet, revenge!"
Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913
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I am Envy, begotten of a chimney sweeper and an oyster-wife.
Scene VI 1909
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I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife.
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 Christopher Marlowe 1578
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