frontierswoman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Despite her deceptively frail appearance, she maintained the stance of a frontierswoman shaped by the extreme circumstances of her native state.
From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2021
When a frontierswoman in the 19th-century wilderness begins to sense a sinister presence, her dread is dismissed by her husband.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2020
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
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 McCutcheon, George Barr
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