Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who sells oranges.
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Examples
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You are ambitious for poor knaves caps and legs: you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of three-pence to a second day of audience.
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