frontierswoman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The other narrative branch in “Inland” belongs largely to Nora, a frontierswoman whose husband, Emmett, has gone missing while searching for water.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2019
There is Nora, a resolute frontierswoman whose husband has left their home on the Arizona Territory to search for water.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2019
Jody looked like a Barbie doll, but her hair was brown and her clothes were those of a prim 19th-century frontierswoman.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2016
Natalie Portman plays a frontierswoman who recruits her former fiance to help save her family from a band of ruthless outlaws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2016
Eliza Striker, hardy frontierswoman though she was, put her fingers to her ears and shrank away from the stove,—for she had been taught that all metal "drew lightning."
From Viola Gwyn by George Barr McCutcheon
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