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