Obs. [after CHAPMAN.] A female dealer or hawker; a trafficking woman.
1624. Massinger, Renegado, III. ii. Is there hope, sir, He has got me a good chapwoman?
a. 1652. Brome, Mad Couple, II. i. Wks. 1873, I. 23. I being none of the wisest Chapwoman.
1707. Lond. Gaz., No. 4343/8. Mary Swinstead, late of St. Giles’s in the fields … Chapwoman.
1753. Richardson, Grandison (1781), III. xvii. 141. Methinks I would not be a petty-chapwoman, if I could help.
1823. Blackw. Mag., XIV. 261. The exhortations of chapmen and chapwomen.
