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orange-wives

orange-wives is the plural of orange-wife.

Meaning of orange-wife

Noun

orange-wife (plural orange-wives)

  1. (obsolete) A woman who sells oranges.
    • 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 threepence to a second day of audience.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about orange-wives

What is orange-wives the plural of?
Orange-wives is the plural of orange-wife.

Words near orange-wives in the dictionary

  1. orange-wife
  2. orange-winged amazon
  3. orange-winged amazons
  4. orange-winged parrot
  5. orange-winged parrots
  6. orange-wives
  7. orangeade
  8. orangeades
  9. orangeat
  10. orangeats
  11. orangeberries

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