tirewoman
English
Etymology
From tire + woman. See tire (“attire”).
Noun
tirewoman (plural tirewomen)
- (archaic) A lady's maid.
- John Locke
- fashionableness of the tire-woman's making
- John Locke
- (archaic) A female dresser in a theatre; a wardrobe assistant.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Simmonds to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)