| 释义 |
ˈcountryˌwoman
a. A woman of a (specified) country, or of one's own country (fellow-countrywoman).
b. A woman who lives in the country or rural parts.
c1440Promp. Parv. 109/2 Contremann, or womann, compatriota. 1582[see country 13 b]. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. i. 67 You are too bitter to your country-woman. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 99 A Hyrcanian Lady (which Countri⁓woman..his mother also was). 1679Hist. Jetzer 37 To dress him up like a Countrey-woman. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 86 Her fair countrywomen. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 49 Conceiving an undying passion..for a young countrywoman whom he found in Holland. |