Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman of Irish birth or ancestry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman of Ireland or of the Irish race.
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- noun A
woman fromIreland
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Ireland
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Examples
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As a provincial Northern Irishwoman from a medical background catapulted, through marriage, into English and Scottish high society in the 1980s, I have been in a unique position to observe a range of quaint but effective customs surrounding the perennial social problem of placement, or place à table, as the grand French call it.
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As a provincial Northern Irishwoman from a medical background catapulted, through marriage, into English and Scottish high society in the 1980s, I have been in a unique position to observe a range of quaint but effective customs surrounding the perennial social problem of placement, or place à table, as the grand French call it.
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And, in his file, there is a letter from an "Irishwoman" - anonymous - no name - and here is the letter she wrote to the prison in
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A similar pattern of mixing and outrage in Philadelphia caused one missionary to complain of how common it was for an Irishwoman to be “living with some dirty Negro.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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His Dutch father was a kind, pragmatic, small town Iowa physician, and his mother a fiery Irishwoman.
Trish Kinney: A Non-Feminist Role Model Trish Kinney 2011
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The impulse for this catastrophic military adventure is traced by some to his 1853 trip to Europe, during which time he was deeply impressed by two things in particular: the imperial grandeur of the French Empire, and a beautiful Irishwoman named Ella Lynch.
Historical Fiction 2010
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A plaid shawl borrowed from the washerwoman, a ragged scrubbing skirt borrowed from the charwoman, and a gray wig rented from a costumer for twenty-five cents a night, completed the outfit; for Edna had elected to be an old Irishwoman singing broken-heartedly after her wandering boy.
Amateur Night 2010
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Earlier in the chapter, she used “Gods” as an interjection where a typical Irishwoman (particularly a Christian) would use “God.”
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum 2009
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Mr. Friel's masterly play, in which three related monologues are woven around one another like strands of ivy, tells the story of an Irishwoman Ms. Kirby who has been blind since childhood and whose sight is miraculously restored by surgery in middle age.
Home Is Where the Hate Is Terry Teachout 2011
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Recall, for instance, the case of Anne Mary Murphy, the pregnant Irishwoman who, in 1986, planned to fly on El Al from London to Tel Aviv, thinking she was to meet her fiancé's Palestinian parents.
David Harris: What Israel Can Teach the World About Airport Security 2010
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