Definition of "goodwives" [goodwives]

• Plural form of goodwife. (noun)

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• "At this hour the place should have been crowded with people buying their daily bread and goodwives bringing their own loaves to bake in the communal ovens for a penny."
• "My appearance would have frightened the goodwives or the children who might have happened upon me, probably most of the men as well."
• "The goodwives who passed took him at first for Beelzebub; then they recognized"