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
Einar remembered her, for she had been his bondwoman for two summers.
From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Robert Leighton
Twice she had met that one-time bondwoman, Kora, and the meeting left her thoughtful, and not entirely satisfied with herself.
From The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan
So swift had this change been that the bondwomen had not seen it, and they were shouting "Hallelujah!" with one voice, thinking only that she who had been dead to them was alive again.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
The sting of this imposition continued to rankle in my heart so long as we were the bondwomen of this particular man.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various
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
Even their bondwomen still spoke a foreign dialect, and commerce with them was mainly by signs.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not even with you trespasses of your own against the Lord your God?
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
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