The Collaborative International Dictionary
Countrywoman \Coun"try*wom`an\ (-w??m`an), n.; pl.
Countrywomen (-w?m`?n).
A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the
city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with
another native or inhabitant.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of countrywoman English)
Usage examples of "countrywomen".
Could I who have held up my voice in the Music Hall of Lacedaemon amidst the glories of the West, in the great and free State of Illinois, against the corruption of an English aristocracy could I, who have been listened to by two thousand of my countrywomen and men while I spurned the unmanly, inhuman errors of primogeniture could I, think you, hold my tongue beneath the roof of a feudal lord!
What if some old women, or even some young women, should turn up their noses at the wife I have chosen, because she has not been chosen from among their own countrywomen, is that to be a cause of suffering to us?
But her second observation, that they were more gentle, fascinating, child-like, and feminine than her own countrywomen, was purely her own.
Yet the next moment he found himself scrutinizing the street and plaza below him for a glimpse of his countrywomen, whom he knew were still in the town or vainly endeavoring to locate their habitation among the red-tiled roofs.
In her hair, dressed in the fashion of wealthy countrywomen, she had more than one hundred sequins' worth of gold pins and arrows which fastened the plaits of her long locks as dark as ebony.
When the charming Frenchwoman uttered some of those witty sayings which proceed so naturally from the lips of her countrywomen, I could not help pitying the sorry face of the poor Hungarian, and, wishing to make him share my mirth, I would undertake to translate in Latin Henriette's sallies.
Even the herbal remedies that many countrywomen used were frowned upon by the Brotherhood of the Seneschal, especially if the women used words or songs to aid the herbs in their healing powers, and Axis himself had been involved in several cases where he had to bring these women to the Tower of the Seneschal for trial and justice.
Never would he forget the screams of the simple countrywomen as the flames engulfed them.
She wore the usual plain woolen dress of most countrywomen, although hers was of a soft blue shade that matched her eyes, covered by a rough black-weave, full-length apron.