A woman, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food.
the local beggarwoman accosts every passer-by for small change
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In one of these caricatures there is a fashionable lady with a dirty beggar woman standing beside her.
A beggar woman and her child took shelter on the verandah at night and left behind disquieting odours.
The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers, all rubbing shoulders with the gentry in their smart clothes and carriages.
Beggar women and working-class women did not frequent the commercialized spaces frequented by middleclass women.
Gabrielle Cummins is also utterly believable as the deranged beggar woman and her excellent performance is matched by great make up and costuming.
She is a sturdy beggarwoman, who sometimes works, but more frequently begs.
Nearing the parking lot, I passed a beggar woman, her hand outstretched.
Just this week I was rushing with many bags and did not stop to give a coin to the beggar woman, and it bothered me!
This time last year a beggar-woman came here, and she was suddenly taken sick.
The beggar woman is looking up at me and smiling.
Mr Martin mentions a young female carried away by a beggarwoman, and by her hired out as a prostitute.
The beggar-woman immediately peeled and devoured her paramour's gift.
He has sometimes known beggar-women to have had several children by different fathers.
The beggar woman coughed as she laughed.
One winter's night, an old beggar woman in tattered grey clothes came to the castle and offered him a single perfect red rose in return for shelter from the bitter storm.
Who could be sure whether or not the old man or beggar-woman who comes knocking at one's door in the dead of night is not a god or goddess in disguise?
The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers.
The beggar woman looked up, recognising Jessica at once.