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Definition of Townswoman
1. Noun. A woman who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Townswoman
1. [n -WOMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Townswoman
Literary usage of Townswoman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fifty Contemporary One-act Plays by Frank Shay, Pierre Loving (1920)
"townswoman. Of course not, but if it was a woman you would have been over ...
townswoman. Look here, sir, your dog is certainly about to bite my child. ..."
2. Emerson in Concord: A Memoir, Written for the "Social Circle" in Concord by Edward Waldo Emerson (1888)
"... so she told him she was his own townswoman, born within a mile of him, and
finally, she says, when she left him, in the gig, he told her ' not to hurry. ..."
3. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1881)
"... an Austrian subject with the rank of gentleman; (14) Nicholas Petro: 29,
gentleman; (15) Fanny Refert, 22, a Jewish townswoman; (16) Micha ..."
4. The Musical World (1851)
"The annual benefit Concert of our talented and highly esteemed townswoman, Miss
Amelia Hill, took place on Tuesday evening the llth instant. ..."
5. The Musical World (1861)
"We take the following from ore of them:— " Last night Miss Augusta Thomson, a
young lady whom we are >roud to call a townswoman, gave one of the best ..."
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