Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman bondservant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female slave. Also improperly written bondswoman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who is a slave, or in bondage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
woman who isbound inservitude ; afemale slave .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a female slave
- noun a female bound to serve without wages
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The bondwoman is a free woman compared with the wife.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
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The bondwoman is a free woman compared with the wife.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The bondwoman is a free woman compared with the wife.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 6 George Meredith 1868
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Agar the bondwoman is a figure of the mount Sinaiwhcre the peo - ple of ifrae I recciued the law: Sara the frcewoman is a figure of the hcaucnly Hierufalemj from whenfe pioceedeth the Gofpell.
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Nasthai began to entrust me with chores that took me outside the compound, such as fetching mountain water from the fountain of Nephron, a duty I shared with the bondwoman Knotais.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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She sat up and chatted with the bathmistress, who was neither bondwoman nor noble but something in between.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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The fine for defect is calculated on the basis of how much a virgin bondwoman or a favorite slave would be worth and how much less such a bondwoman who was not a virgin would be worth.
Legal-Religious Status of the Virgin. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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She was the only one of us High speakers born of the Blood, but on this side of the mountains she was just another bondwoman.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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She was the only one of us High speakers born of the Blood, but on this side of the mountains she was just another bondwoman.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I helped you and your men to cross the Ferinus and for reward you gave me to the arthygater to be a bondwoman.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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