bondwoman
Americannoun
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bondwomen
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bondwoman
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English bonde womman; see bond 2, woman
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The bondwoman in question was Elizabeth, or Bett for short, or sometimes even Mum Bett.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2015
In this time a witch came to town as a bondwoman to the wool merchant's widow.
From Time Magazine Archive
This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for ‘Marmar’, as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman, and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
From Biblical Extracts Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities by Robert Cooper
And what if I find that I am the son of some bondwoman.
From Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred John Church
But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
From The Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Volume 4 by Gustave Doré
So he awarded to Socht the price of seven bondwomen as blood-fine for the slaying of Angus, and restitution of the sword to Socht.
From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Stephen Reid
This second class of servants were called bondmen and bondwomen.
From Woman: Man's Equal by Thomas Webster
The bondwomen could find no-way to comfort her.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
"The milch-kine and the bondwomen of the booty he shall have, and for him to hold back his staff-sling from the hosts, for not pleasant is the thunder-feat he works every evening upon them."
From The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge by Joseph Dunn
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