honest woman
To marry a woman with whom one has cohabitated as a mistress, is termed, making an honest woman of her.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
To marry a woman with whom one has cohabitated as a mistress, is termed, making an honest woman of her.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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