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- noun Plural form of
Bushwoman .
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Examples
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So if novelty's not the reason for the love for the new generation of Bushwomen, what is?
Laura Flanders: The F Word: The Year of Which Women Again? 2010
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Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species, by Laura Flanders (2004).
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Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species, by Laura Flanders (2004).
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Dutch extraction, through association with Hottentot and Bushwomen.
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There is one sucking-place, around which were congregated great numbers of Bushwomen with their egg-shells and reeds.
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She's also the author of "Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species."
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In the first place it has been suggested that they represent women of a steatopygous type, like the modern Bushwomen, and that this race was in early days widely diffused in the Mediterranean and in South Europe.
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Having traveled till dark, they halted under a hill, and were soon afterward joined by a party of Bushwomen, who continued with them in spite of all their attempts to get rid of them.
The Mission Frederick Marryat 1820
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Toward dusk, when it was time to drive them in and tie them up to the wagons, it was found that the cattle-keepers, who had been in company with the Bushwomen, had neglected their charge, and they were not to be found.
The Mission Frederick Marryat 1820
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It was also observed that the Bushwomen had all disappeared.
The Mission Frederick Marryat 1820
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