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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a bag lady" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a woman who is homeless and carries her belongings in bags, often used in a derogatory or stereotypical context.
Example: "As she walked down the street, she was often mistaken for a bag lady, her tattered clothes and numerous bags giving her an air of neglect."
Alternatives: "homeless woman" or "street dweller".
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"A bag lady, hunched down, skinny face".
Imagine a "bag lady" walks in with bundles of papers.
There wasn't a soul about, not even a bag lady".
"I have had nightmares about becoming a bag lady," she said.
Drabble wanders muttering through her own narrative like a bag lady.
She's shambolic, she looks like a bag lady... like Columbo, but even more so – she's always scratching.
She played a bag lady in Patrice Chéreau's Intimacy, an adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's novella of infidelity.
In the morning, a woman may dress like a bag lady to walk her dogs in Central Park.
The late New York congressman Stephen Solarz, investigating her assets, said, "Compared to Imelda, Marie Antoinette was a bag lady".
The focal point is Trudy, a bag lady who has been trying to explain earthlings to some space aliens.
She did not have to become a bag lady for her work to be revived, though that possibly helped too.
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