contadine

There were hundreds of contadine in the great crowd surging by, but no Lisetta.

Mae Madden Mary Murdoch Mason

The gay confusion of Carnival is over, with its mad tossing of flowers and _bonbons_, its showering of _confetti_, its brilliantly draped balconies running over with happy faces, its barbaric races, its rows of joyous _contadine_, its quaint masquerading, and all the glad folly of its Saturnalia.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

Everywhere on these hills you find villas, and every villa has a garden, and every garden has a fountain, where all day long the sun plays with the slim dancing water and the contadine sing of love in the vineyards.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

A pretty place enough, it possesses an unique market-place covered in by ancient twisted plane trees, where the old women chaffer with the cooks and contadine.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

It is now no longer made in great quantity, and is chiefly worn by contadine (as a safe investment of their ready money),

Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878

To which the boy on the shafts – a laughing, merry fellow named Giovanni – replies that these are contadine from Buchenstein, Luvinallungo, and Corfara.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

The two handsome contadine, who serve me, took off their woollen gowns, and sat five hours at a time, in the street, in white cambric dresses, and straw hats turned up with roses.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851

To-day we have been out in the country, and found a little chapel, full of contadine, their lovers waiting outside the door.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851

Perhaps she too had come in among the troops of contadine.

Romola George Eliot 1849

Two young English tourists (one of them a lord) took contadine partners and dashed in, as did also a shaggy man in goat-skin breeches, who looked like rustic Pan in person, and footed it as merrily as he.

The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834