What is "bondswomen"

Usage examples of "bondswomen".

We assets or slaves were called bondsmen, bondswomen, and pups or young.

All our world was the bondswomen's huts and the bondsmen's longhouses, the kitchens and kitchen gardens, the bare plaza beaten hard by bare feet.

Bondsmen and bondswomen lingered at the ditch that divided the gateside from the inside, talking across the ditch.

I was terrified when at last she took my hand, scolding me in a whisper all the time, and brought me out of the bondswomen's quarters, through halls and doorways of painted wood, into a bright, sunny room with no roof, full of flowers growing in pots.

Again she scolded and warned me, but she was excited, too, and pleased with me, as we went to the beza again, through other halls, meeting some other bondswomen on the way, and to the lady's bedroom.

Her husband was seldom home and when he was there did not come to her, preferring bondswomen for his pleasure.

Sometimes she had my mother or other, younger bondswomen come into her bed, and she sent me away at those times, until I was older, ten or eleven, when she began to keep me and have me join in with them, teaching me how to be pleasured.

But I did not know how to approach any of the bondswomen, and they were afraid to approach me, since I belonged to the Young Owner.

Of the two younger house bondswomen, one called Kamsa always carried her little baby around with her, and the men ignored her.

Hwahlis had chosen his wives well and the two women saw to it that the work was equally divided amongst Aldora and the two older bondswomen, one of whom was a girl called Neekohl.

To a miller or a weaver perhaps: some small businessman who doesn't want any fight in his bondswomen.

The bondswomen whom Achilles and Patroclus had taken captive screamed aloud for grief, beating their breasts, and with their limbs failing them for sorrow.

Four panther girls, with switches, hurried the lovely, tethered, braceleted bondswomen.