tirewoman

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English

Etymology

From tire +‎ woman. See tire (“attire”).

Noun

tirewoman (plural tirewomen)

  1. (archaic) A lady's maid.
    • 1693, [John Locke], “§37”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: A and J Churchill, , →OCLC:
      fashionableness of the taylor or tirewoman's making
    • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 1, page 8:
      'that a paltry girl, who is not worthy to be my tirewoman, the orphan of a murderer. . .that a creature thus naturally formed to excite aversion and contempt should so engross thy affections!'
  2. (archaic) A female dresser in a theatre; a wardrobe assistant.[1]

References

  1. ^ 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tirewoman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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