What is "freedwoman"

Usage examples of "freedwoman".

For this help, Seneca knew his enemies would call him a pander, but, given a lusty young emperor whose passion would not be bridled, it was better to let him indulge in an affair with a harmless freedwoman than risk worse scandals with some of the powerful and ambitious women of Rome.

Charles Colby made a small ceremony of handing her the papers which established her new status as a freedwoman of the colony.

Gallic freedwoman Cardixa stood silently waiting for orders, and was instructed to see the ladies off the premises as expeditiously as possible.

Lizzie is a handsome, statuesque freedwoman, curiously self-assured, who made the ballgowns for half the famous ladies in Washington.

Aetius had long made her a freedwoman, and allowed her to seek out her own destiny in this little below-the-Wall community, but she still had room in her life for Regina.

The gigantic Gallic freedwoman Cardixa stood silently waiting for orders, and was instructed to see the ladies off the premises as expeditiously as possible.

As for me, as a freedwoman and a resident foreigner I am protected by our laws.

Half of the money is to go to the freedwoman Epicharis, lately in the service of the Empress Octavia.

I learned that his Auntie Vestina, a freedwoman of the imperial house, had lived for many years right beside the Temple of Hercules Invictus.

They received baptism together with their young freedwoman, Caelia Avitella, who was dearer to them than the light of their eyes.

Augustus gave the Noble Order of Knights permission to marry commoners, even freedwomen, but this did not improve things very much.

Noble Order of Knights permission to marry commoners, even freedwomen, but this did not improve things very much.

By her clothing she was either a slave or one of the dirt-poor freedwomen trying to make a living in the shanties at the ends of Girod or Perdido Streets, maybe a prostitute or maybe just a laundress.

Even after the sounds died away, and the scattering of slaves, freedwomen, and free colored came out onto the veranda to revive themselves on coffee and biscuits, it was another three-quarters of an hour until Dunk could extricate himself from his white admirers and gesture January into a small parlor where they would not be disturbed.