Obs. [f. COSTARD apple + WIFE: cf. COSTERMONGER.] A woman that keeps a stall for the sale of apples, and the like, an ‘apple-wife.’
1661. K. W., Conf. Charact., Univ. Beadle (1860), 72. You’d take him for some bearded London coster-wife newly drest up on a munday morning.
