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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See bondwoman.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The female equivalent of a bondsman.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. See bondwoman.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a female bound to serve without wages
  2. n. a female slave
  3. n. someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else

Examples

  • “He used a term in Arabic which means literally "bondswoman," someone who is bonded to him.”

    CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2003

  • “There's a deceased ex-wife who offers advice from the hereafter, a band of escaped prisoners from the 1960s wreaking havoc on modern-day society and a bail bondswoman who learns that she's really a fairy-tale princess.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Must Be the Season of the Weird

  • “One for the Money by Janet Evanovich: Evanovich found her voice from the very beginning with the tough but charming Trenton bail bondswoman Stephanie Plum.”

    An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.

  • “But let us not forget the more obscure actors, those such as the Quaker Laura Haviland and the former bondswoman Harriet Jacobs, the Rebel General William Mahone and the southern abolitionist Moncure Conway.”

    The Washington Post: Mike Musick: How should the country mark the sesquicentennial?

  • “If you can't even take the risk not to wear a tie or make-up according to your birth sex if you want to make your way in this world then you are either a bondsman or a bondswoman; in short a slave.”

    The Guardian: Let's put women first in 2011 | Mervyn Davies

  • “Saxons were heathens at that time, or at least heretics, and made a positive point with her husband that the bondswoman and girl who were to attend on her person and that of her daughter, should be qualified for the office by being anew admitted into the Christian Church by baptism.”

    Count Robert of Paris

  • “To no son of Dermid shall I be delivered, to be fed like a bondswoman; but he who is my pleasure and my pride shall be my guard and my protector.”

    Chronicles of the Canongate

  • “Then she says to me, ‘O my lord, Allah upon thee, do not refuse to take the cup from the hand of thine hand maid, for verily I am thy bondswoman.’”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • “But, when Princess Manar al-Sana saw her sister in this plight, a bondswoman and in fetters, she wept over her and said, “O my sister, who is this hath conquered us and made us captives in our own country?””

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • “It would have been enough to break the heart of a person who had calculated upon getting a fortune, which I never did; for I felt always like an intruder and a bondswoman, and had wished myself out of the Petherwin family a hundred times, with my crust of bread and liberty.”

    The Hand of Ethelberta

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