What is "foremothers"

Usage examples of "foremothers".

We followed the old Minoan fashion here in Mesopotama (one of my foremothers much removed had come from Crete, I believe, bringing the fashion with her), and all noble unmarried girls displayed their breasts above their tight-waisted flounced skirts and between the flaring stiffened lapels of their heavily embroidered jackets.

What she did was for her foremothers, from whom she had inherited her strange exotic darkcraft, and even darker ambition.

They couk no longer protect this land which I, as all my foremothers including Ariadne loved so much.

Genvissa stood atop Og's Hill watching the preparations about her and communing, very gently, very softly, with the shadowy spirits of the five foremothers who had helped her to this point.

She was of a line of five foremothers, singular women all, the first of whom, Ariadne, had brought to this land an exotic dark sorcery.

Genvissa is not alone in this… she has the help and support and work of the five damned foremothers before her.

This hour or two of sunshine was to be treasured, a gift perhaps from her foremothers watching over her from the Far World, wishing her love and wellness in these days leading to the final accomplishment of their dream.

They tranced deeper and deeper, further and further back, to the foremothers of their foremothers’ foremothers.

The honor of my house would never let me make a false statement to the governing body I hold so dear, and who my very foremothers helped to create.

Our foremothers knew that when women had to be paid for, they were more highly valued, so we told the men they’d either pay and pay well for a woman’s reproductive life, or they would do without.

Our foremothers knew that when women had to be paid for, they were more highly valued, so we told the men they'd either pay and pay well for a woman's reproductive life, or they would do without.