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bondswoman
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The female equivalent of a bondsman.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else [syn: bondsman ] a female bound to serve without wages [syn: bondwoman , bondmaid ] a female slave [syn: bondwoman , bondmaid ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bondswoman \Bonds"wom`an\, n. See Bondwoman . [1913 Webster] ||
Usage examples of bondswoman.
All, however, wore the same nervous, silly smile, all swayed themselves with embarrassed timidity, the anxious mien of the bondswoman at the slave market, who fears that she may not find a purchaser.
I promised to marry her to my man Scipione as soon as possible, since protection of some sort was necessary to a bondswoman who had run away from the land to which she belonged.
Parker Yocum turned the money over to some bondswoman who had gone his bond on some kind of criminal case and had gotten out of the country.
But ever as he grew older he thought more of her, and it pained him very much to know that even now, when he was living in comfort, with good food and rich apparel, she, to whom he owed so much, was perhaps labouring as a bondswoman under some cruel master.
When he came back, the bondswoman looked at him with feigned disinterest.
At that time she was attended by a young bondswoman named Clothilde, who was as clever as the princess although of low estate.
His young queen feared for her life and fled the palace with her handmaiden Clothilde, the same one who was once bondswoman to Tallia.
The early-morning visitor left just as Bessy, a young bondswoman, brought Sate his breakfast.
Juliana watched the plump bondswoman come nearer, taking in the clothes that showed plainly through the thin, worn material of the pillowcase.
With his whole being wrapped up in thoughts of Juliana, the bondswoman held no attraction for him.
The former bondswoman, Bessy Oates, leaned against the rough counter staring at her, a malicious look in her small eyes.
The child, young lady, was not then mortgaged in the cradle, and, mark ye, the bride, when she kneeled at the altar, gave not herself up, body and soul, to be the bondswoman of the Jew, but to be the helpmate of the spouse.
They had seen many bondswomen who were fair, they said, and how could they tell that any one of them was she whom the young hersir was now seeking?
Three bondswomen moved between the tables, setting drinks before the customers.
The bondswomen, their sleeves rolled up and cloths tied around their heads, busily swept at the accumulation of mud, splintered wood, and broken glass.