What does orange-wife mean?

orange-wife

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English

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Obsolete

"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."

orange-wives (plural)

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