† chapwomann.
Obsolete.
A female dealer or hawker; a trafficking woman.
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cheapild?c1225
chapwoman1630
negotiatress1827
negotiatrix1852
middlewoman1908
1630 P. Massinger Renegado iii. ii. sig. F4 Is there hope sir, He has got me a good chapwoman?
a1652 R. Brome Madd Couple Well Matcht ii. i, in Wks. (1873) I. 23 I being none of the wisest Chapwoman.
1707 London Gaz. No. 4343/8 Mary Swinstead, late of St. Giles's in the Fields..Chapwoman.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xvii. 139 Methinks I would not be a petty-chapwoman, if I could help.
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 261 The exhortations of chapmen and chapwomen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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