basketwoman

‘The she-dragon is sick today; I wish to Heaven she would die!’ or, ‘The hideous old Irish basketwoman has been treating me to some of her Billingsgate today,’ and so forth: all which expressions, read to Mrs. Barry, or translated from the

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

This is the custom of sending on a basketwoman, who is to precede the pomp at a coronation, and to strew the stage with flowers, before the great personages begin their procession.

I. Containing Five Pages of Paper. Book IV 1917

Heaven she would die! 'or,' The hideous old Irish basketwoman has been treating me to some of her Billingsgate to-day, 'and so forth: all which expressions, read to Mrs. Barry, or translated from the

Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837