tribeswoman

[trahybz-woom-uhn]

noun

plural

tribeswomen 

1. a female member of a tribe.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tribeswoman¹

First recorded in 1850–55; tribe ( def. ) + 's ¹ ( def. ) + woman ( def. )

Example Sentences

MBS’s mother, Fahda, is a Bedouin tribeswoman and seen as the favourite of his father’s four wives.

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In Round Valley, Deb Hutt, a Yuki tribeswoman and the sister of Oandasan, said she wonders why descendants of the Hastings family have never apologized.

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In the 1800s, when the Zezuru tribe in southern Africa was approached by marauders, the tribe would dispatch a chorus line of topless tribeswoman to daze the attackers by shaking their breasts suggestively at them.

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An essay last month in the Islamic State’s official propaganda organ, al-Naba, sought to rally more women to the fight by invoking a famous female warrior from Islam’s early history: Nusaybah bit Ka’ab, a 7th-century tribeswoman who took up a sword to assist the prophet Muhammad when he was surrounded by enemies in battle.

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Across the stage, the tall Tribal boy from earlier is dancing with a dainty Tribeswoman who has a smile like lightning.

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