Noun

(en noun)

A person; a fop

* {{quote-book, year=1860, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VI.,October, 1860.--No. XXXVI., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=What Is Man? and Other Essays, chapter=At the Shrine of St. Wagner, edition= citation

, passage=In large measure the Metropolitan is a show-case for rich fashionables who are not trained in Wagnerian music and have no reverence for it, but who like to promote art and show their clothes. }}

* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=September 20, author=George Grass, title=Star Show, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=A few, perhaps, have a further purpose; they desire to assist in that circus, to show themselves in the capacity of fashionables , to enchant the yokelry with their splendor. }}

Noun

(women)

An adult female human.

* Bible, (w) 2:22:

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman .

* (John Ledyard) (1751-1789)

I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men

* 1887 , Helen Campbell, Prisoners of poverty: their trades and their lives , p.120:

But this woman' is a nice German ' woman that fell on the ice and sprained her ankle last winter, and we saw to her well as we could till she got better.

(lb) All females collectively; womankind.

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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

* 1997 , Bob Grant, Let's Be Heard , p.42:

For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?

* 2011 , Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In , p.109:

Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.

A wife (or sometimes a or girlfriend).

* 1914 , , Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays , chapter 7: "Of Being and Not-Being":

And then, when he lies with his woman , the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.

A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing.

* 2004 , Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount , p.70:

Perhaps my problem is that I am a cat woman . I can't imagine any finicky feline (and they all are that at one time or another) slobbering over anyone, even a beloved owner, the way a dog does.

A female attendant or servant.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

By her woman I sent your message.