bondswoman

¹ American  

[bondz-woom-uhn] / ˈbɒndzˌwʊm ən /

noun

Law.

• bondswomen
  plural

1. a woman who is bound or who by bond becomes surety for another.

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bondswoman ² American  

[bondz-woom-uhn] / ˈbɒndzˌwʊm ən /

noun

• bondswomen
  plural

1. bondwoman.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bondswomen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of bondswoman¹

1605–15; bond's woman woman of the bond, i.e., its signer; see bondsman ¹, woman

Origin of bondswoman²

bond ² + 's ¹ + woman

Example Sentences

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But the family still hadn’t had enough to cover Brittany’s bond, so Ramona had given a bondswoman the titles to her cars and her mother’s wedding rings as collateral.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020

The trader said this was to express her gratitude—the empty shell and small fish signifying poverty, while the gift of hair denoted that she was a bondswoman to me for life.

From A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood

Whereto she will reply 'Thou art the lord and I am the bondswoman.'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

I promised to marry her to my man Scipione as soon as possible, since protection of some sort was necessary to a bondswoman who had run away from the land to which she belonged.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Shame! shame that this should be! that she should have mistaken vile schemes for love, that a liar's kisses should have polluted her soul! that she should be the wife, the bondswoman of a cheat!

From The Nest of the Sparrowhawk by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

Morag was taken to the Stone House by strong-armed bondswomen, and Baun and Deelish sat in corners and cried and did not go near her.

From The King of Ireland's Son by Padraic Colum

Time seemed to soften the hearts of master and mistress, and to insure kinder and more humane treatment to bondsmen and bondswomen.

From Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley

This peace I establish on behoof of us, and of our kin, friends, and men of affinity, women even as men, bondswomen, even as bonds-men, swains and men of estate.

From The Story of Grettir the Strong by William Morris

They had seen many bondswomen who were fair, they said, and how could they tell that any one of them was she whom the young hersir was now seeking?

From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Robert Leighton

The bondswomen whom Achilles and Patroclus had taken captive screamed aloud for grief, beating their breasts, and with their limbs failing them for sorrow.

From The Iliad by Homer