bondwoman
(ˈbɒndwʊmən)
[Orig. two words: see bond a.]
A female slave.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (1865) II. 97 (Mätzn.) Leyre wite, amendes for liggynge by a bondwommen. 1526 Tindale Gal. iv. 30 Put awaye the bonde woman. 1671 Milton P.R. ii. 308 The fugitive bondwoman, with her son, Outcast Nebaioth. 1782 Burke Reform Ho. Comm. Wks. X. 102 Yorkshire, like the child of the bond-woman, is turned out to the desert. 1872 Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 143 The most exalted lady was no more exempt than the lowliest bondwoman. |