polyandrist
(pɒlɪˈændrɪst)
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
One who practises polyandry; a woman who has several husbands at the same time. In quot. 1887 euphem. for ‘prostitute’. Also attrib. (= polyandrous 2). (Corresp. to polygynist.)
| 1833 Blackw. Mag. XXXIII. 143 Her elder sister, Imagination, once so prolific in her loveliness, a Polyandrist with all her Passions of old. 1878 C. S. Wake Evol. Morality II. 241 From the legend of the Pendavas,..it would seem that they [the Kshatriyas] were actually polyandrists. 1887 Pall Mall G. 14 July 2/1 Attempts to make the regulation of the movements of female polyandrists a police function. |