What is "fisherwomen"

Usage examples of "fisherwomen".

The most hardened fisherwomen fled, convinced that looking at the monster could induce goiter, swivel eye, or miscarriage.

Those boats she could see now, those fisherwomen out on their feluccas beyond the white bands of breaking waves, their whole lives were dictated by these uncertainties, and the habits of the shoals of whiteback which came and went on the oceans, which could also only be guessed at in this same approximate way.

Vehicles, fisherwomen with flounder baskets, the pastor, school-children, travelers in transit, salesmen with sample cases, the coaches and freight cars of the Island narrow-gauge railway, cattle for slaughter or breeding, weddings and funerals with coffins and wreaths were squinted across the river by ferryman Kriwe, who entered all happenings in his log.

Intricate as a road map, the whole lagoon was laced with these deep waters - canals, she remembered, was the right word for them here - between which the pale banks rose glimmering, and lay just below the surface, and the fisherwomen waded about in the warm water with their big nets.

She wore the picturesque costume of the Catalan fisherwomen, a red and black bodice, and golden pins in her hair.