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Bondwomen

Bondwoman \Bond"wom`an\, n.; pl. Bondwomen. [Bond,a.orn.+ woman.] A woman who is a slave, or in bondage.

He who was of the bondwoman.
--Gal. iv. 23.

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bondwomen

n. (plural of bondwoman English)

Usage examples of "bondwomen".

On her two previous visits she had been kept waiting some while in an anteroom, and then the veiled bondwomen had brought her into an inner room, the only dim room in the whole airy house, where the princess had stood in her round-brimmed hat with the red veil hanging down all round it to the floor, looking permanently fixed there, built in, exactly as if she were a brick chimney, as Lady lyesa had said.

They cannot take a step without becoming bondwomen: into what a slavery!

Mankind will then scarcely believe that a country calling itself free would send to Holland for a man, and clothe him with power on purpose to put themselves in fear of him, and give him almost a million sterling a year for leave to submit themselves and their posterity, like bondmen and bondwomen, for ever.

When I was small, one of my mother's bondwomen told me that it was now the haunt of frost-witches and restless ghosts.