tartwoman
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tartwoman (plural tartwomen)
- A woman who sells tarts.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair:
- [She] won the love of everybody who came near her, from Minerva herself down to the poor girl in the scullery, and the one-eyed tartwoman's daughter, who was permitted to vend her wares once a week to the young ladies in the Mall.