Timeline for Seeking old-fashioned term ending in "-wife" for a woman who performed abortions back when they were illegal and done in secret
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| Oct 8, 2023 at 17:44 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2023 at 14:16 | answer | added | WordNerd | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 8:58 | comment | added | RicardoGMC | @Benjamin Harman, not a native speaker here, so I don't dare edit your question, but I'd say you meant "discreetly" instead of "discretely" | |
| Dec 22, 2022 at 8:11 | comment | added | Benjamin Harman | @TinfoilHat - I've tried. I've wracked my brain trying. It just won't jog, though. Or it hasn't so far. Still trying. Thanks. | |
| Dec 22, 2022 at 8:05 | comment | added | Benjamin Harman | @KateBunting - I honestly can't remember enough about the rest of it. I can remember that bit of the scene, but the setting was rather squalid, so it's not like I have a lot of fancy costumery to go on but just two ladies basically in somewhat unmemorable rags. I'm thinking, yes, maybe Victorian or Georgian. Definitely not 20th century or later and I don't feel like it was set back as far as the Middle Ages. More than that, I'm sorry, I just can't remember well enough. | |
| Dec 22, 2022 at 3:07 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | Can you jog your memory regarding the period drama you saw? Vera Drake is a 2004 British period drama film... 10 Rillington Place is a 1971 British crime film... | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 18:51 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | What period are we talking about here - Victorian, or earlier? | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 18:11 | comment | added | Lambie | Yes, there is a very odd term with -wife at the end which I cannot remember at the moment as I only saw it once but I am not sure it means abortionist. | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1605624152806887425 | ||
| Dec 21, 2022 at 16:15 | answer | added | ermanen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 14:51 | history | edited | Jim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2022 at 14:16 | history | asked | Benjamin Harman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |