yeowoman
(ˈjəʊwʊmən)
Pl. yeowomen (-wɪmən).
[After yeoman.]
A woman having the rank or position of a yeoman.
| 1852 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 58 With a young yeowoman called Miss Brook he sang ‘All's Well’. 1892 Tennyson Foresters iii, Robin. Nay, no Earl am I. I am English yeoman. Marian. Then I am yeo-woman. O the clumsy word! |