The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tire-woman \Tire"-wom`an\, n.; pl. Tire-women. [See Tire attire, Attire.]
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A lady's maid.
Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making.
--Locke. A dresser in a theater.
--Simmonds.
Usage examples of "tire-woman".
Meanwhile, Lord Roos had taken advantage of the brief halt of the hunting party to approach the Countess of Exeter, and pointing out Gillian to her, inquired in a low tone, and in a few words, to which, however, his looks imparted significance, whether she would take the pretty damsel into her service as tire-woman or handmaiden.
I shall be shut up with the tire-women else, and have a week of spindle and bodkin, when I would fain be galloping Troubadour up Wilverley Walk, or loosing little Roland at the Vinney Ridge herons.
I shall be shut up with the tire-women else, and have a week of spindle and bodkin, when I would fain be galloping Troubadour up Wilverly Walk, or loosing little Roland at the Vinney Ridge herons.
When he attempted to wait upon her and inquire what duties she desired of him, he found her rooms crammed with mildly hysterical tire-women being directed by her Aunt dy Baocia, all charging in and out with piles of garments in their arms.
The tire-women had performed heroic feats with silks and satins, garbing her in all the shades of blue proper for a bride.
In a little while, most of the tire-women and attendants emerged, including Lady Betriz.
Her four blonde tire-women crouched in the shade of a cart, fanning themselves against the midday heat.