Definition of "orange-woman" [orange-woman]

• Same as orange-wife. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""Good even to you, pretty maiden!" said the cavalier, approaching the stall of the orange-woman with the easy, confident air of one secure of a ready welcome, and bending down on the yet prayerful maiden the glances of a pair of piercing hazel eyes that looked out on each side of his aquiline nose with the keenness of a falcon's."
• "Mr. Bowdoin got up hurriedly, and, nodding to the orange-woman, shuffled into his house."
• "The old crossing-sweeper was already there, to receive his penny; and the orange-woman, expectant, sold her apex orange to him for a silver thripenny bit as his before-breakfast while awaiting the more dignified cunctation of his auguster spouse."