Old Pros
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
Oysterwives
A woman who shucks and sells oysters.
"On whom gape thine Oysters so wide,
oysterwife
?"
John Heywood, A dialogue conteynyng proverbs and epigrammes (1562).
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