Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who holds up and robs travelers on a road.
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- noun The
female equivalent of ahighwayman .
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Examples
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Wulf agrees rather than be lopped, and takes his prison companion with him, a highwaywoman, and the Doctor goes for sorcerous support.
Archive 2007-04-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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I need to invent some news for the other forest creatures, like, the ninja girl has become a highwaywoman and little springtime has sold an episode to "House."
Portland and Portland asakiyume 2007
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Oh, and--I finally drew a picture of a highwaywoman.
golden apples of the sun asakiyume 2007
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It's about a woman who steps out on the king's roads as a highwaywoman to test her true love.
Sovay, Sovay! asakiyume 2007
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Eventually they so toned down and polished the deed of the little social highwaywoman as to pass her on in the family history with an escutcheon shadowed only, rather than smirched.
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Contemporary accounts distinguish Lady Londonderry’s regime as irrevocably haughty, and as a strong partisan – described by E. F.Benson as “a highwaywoman in a tiara” – her influence is said to have been behind some of the contretemps of the Tory party.
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