Definition of beggarwoman in English:
beggarwoman
nounPlural beggarwomenˈbɛɡəˌwʊmən
dated A woman, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food.
the local beggarwoman accosts every passer-by for small change
Example sentencesExamples
- In one of these caricatures there is a fashionable lady with a dirty beggar woman standing beside her.
- A beggar woman and her child took shelter on the verandah at night and left behind disquieting odours.
- The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers, all rubbing shoulders with the gentry in their smart clothes and carriages.
- Beggar women and working-class women did not frequent the commercialized spaces frequented by middleclass women.
- Gabrielle Cummins is also utterly believable as the deranged beggar woman and her excellent performance is matched by great make up and costuming.
- She is a sturdy beggarwoman, who sometimes works, but more frequently begs.
- Nearing the parking lot, I passed a beggar woman, her hand outstretched.
- Just this week I was rushing with many bags and did not stop to give a coin to the beggar woman, and it bothered me!
- This time last year a beggar-woman came here, and she was suddenly taken sick.
- The beggar woman is looking up at me and smiling.
- Mr Martin mentions a young female carried away by a beggarwoman, and by her hired out as a prostitute.
- The beggar-woman immediately peeled and devoured her paramour's gift.
- He has sometimes known beggar-women to have had several children by different fathers.
- The beggar woman coughed as she laughed.
- One winter's night, an old beggar woman in tattered grey clothes came to the castle and offered him a single perfect red rose in return for shelter from the bitter storm.
- Who could be sure whether or not the old man or beggar-woman who comes knocking at one's door in the dead of night is not a god or goddess in disguise?
- The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers.
- The beggar woman looked up, recognising Jessica at once.