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  • noun Plural form of whitster.

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Examples

  • Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be ready here hard by in the brew-house: and when I suddenly call you, come forth, and without any pause or staggering take this basket on your shoulders: that done, trudge with it in all haste, and carry it among the whitsters in Datchet-mead, and there empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor 2004

  • Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be ready here hard by in the brew-house: and when I suddenly call you, come forth, and without any pause or staggering take this basket on your shoulders: that done, trudge with it in all haste, and carry it among the whitsters in Datchet-mead, and there empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor 1597

  • Robert, be ready here hard by in the brew-house; and when I suddenly call you, come forth, and, without any pause or staggering, take this basket on your shoulders: 10 that done, trudge with it in all haste, and carry it among the whitsters in Datchet-mead, and there empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590

  • "The whitsters of Datchet Mead" are referred to by Mrs. Ford ( "Merry Wives of Windsor," act iii., sc.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • "The whitsters of Datchet Mead" are referred to by Mrs. Ford ( "Merry Wives of Windsor," act iii., sc.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 56: August 1667 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • "The whitsters of Datchet Mead" are referred to by Mrs. Ford ( "Merry Wives of Windsor," act iii., sc.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • "The whitsters of Datchet Mead" are referred to by Mrs. Ford ( "Merry Wives of Windsor," act iii., sc.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1667 Pepys, Samuel 1667

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