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单词 herb-woman
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herb-womann.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈherb-woman.
A woman who sells herbs.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of herbs > woman
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herb-woman1609
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xix. 86 Why, your hearbe-woman, she that sets seeds and rootes of shame and iniquitie. View more context for this quotation
1642 Ordin. & Declar. Lords & Com., Lords Day 5 Any Fruiterers or Hearbe-women.
1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 9 July (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1562 Even the herb-women at Athens were correct judges of it.
1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 472 Euripides the son of the herb-woman.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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