The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seawife
Seawife \Sea"wife`\, n.; pl. Seawives. (Zo["o]l.) A European wrasse ( Labrus vetula).
Usage examples of "seawife".
This was less than a seawife would have done, and maybe the unspoken scorn of those females helped drive her back to land, even as the bells of the little church and the sight of little thatch-roofed timber houses had drawn her.