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- noun Plural form of
beggarwoman .
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Examples
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And when the marketwomen or the beggarwomen respectfully inquired of her, "How is your good provider?" she made her reply with no sense of irony, though she had been long paying the piper herself.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895
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She saw a woman seated on the steps as beggarwomen sit, face in lap.
Vittoria — Volume 8 George Meredith 1868
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She saw a woman seated on the steps as beggarwomen sit, face in lap.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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She saw a woman seated on the steps as beggarwomen sit, face in lap.
Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Hallgerðr asked some gossiping beggarwomen what was going on at Njál's farm at Bergþórshváll.
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Ireland the beggarwomen bless you with, -,, "the luck of the
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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