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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 109/2 Contremann, or womann, compatriota.

1563 T. Becon Reliques of Rome (rev. ed.) f. 73^v A certain maide called Clara, a countreywoman and Disciple of Fraunces the Fryer.

c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 170 Alþouh shee waz born in Gloster, & I in þe furþest part of Somerset..yet..I in mirth kald her alwaiz kuntreywoma<n>.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. i. 69 You are too bitter to your country-woman . View more context for this quotation

1673 J. Dryden Amboyna iii. 35 Come Country woman, I must call you so; since he who owns my Heart is English born.

1741 S. Keimer Caribbeana I. 56 To our Lovely Country-Women, who are single, the Barbadian Batchelors, and Widowers, send lovingly Greeting.

1785 J. Q. Adams Diary 12 Oct. (1981) I. 276 He [sc. a Frenchman] was married there, to an American. It does not give me pleasure to see my Countrywomen form such connections.

1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 242 Her fair countrywomen.

1892 Harper's Mag. May 950/1 Two hundred years ago Mary Astell wrote, as she was pleading for a wider education for her countrywomen.

1933 A. Christie in Sat. Evening Post 21 Oct. 74 I am perhaps old-fashioned, but me, I find the American women less charming than my own countrywomen.

1976 A. Delius Border 208 ‘How do you like your fellow countrywoman?’... I said I thought she was charming.

2010 E. J. Jensen Body by Weimar iii. 108 Her success, along with that of her countrywomen, made the 1920s an unprecedented era for female athletes in Germany.

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. I.iii The vnmanerly countreywoman..aryseth before daye oute of her slepe to spinne and carde.

1585 T. Bowes tr. P. de La Primaudaye French Academie xliv. 474 Such preferments of fortune will not seeme very strange..if we consider how Pertinax came to the Empire..being borne of a poore countrywoman.

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum xiii. xxv. 1183 The stalkes of some of them are platted into mats, for Country women to lay and dry their new pressed cheeses on.

1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 37 To dress him up like a Countrey-woman.

1747 tr. Marquis d'Argens New Mem. establishing True Knowl. Mankind II. 264 The Country-woman..minds nothing on Sundays so much as her best Bib and Tucker.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Satyrane's Lett. in Biogr. Lit. (1817) 252 Countrywomen and servant girls..tripped along the dirty streets.

1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin ix. 78 A staid countrywoman exchanging her spunyarn..for various commodities.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire ii. 45 Conceiving an undying passion,..for a young countrywoman whom he found in Holland.

1912 B. T. Washington & R. E. Park Man Farthest Down xvi. 309 Not infrequently I ran across women hauling carts through the streets... That, for example, is the way in which the countrywomen sometimes bring their garden truck to market.

1972 H. E. Roberts in M. Vicinus Suffer & be Still (1973) iv. 55 The painters pictured rustic countrywomen happy in their cozy warm cottages or pastoral landscapes.

2008 Y. Pan in K. J. Hammond & K. Stapleton Human Trad. Mod. China x. 178 How could she, a simple illiterate countrywoman, survive in the big city?

1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias 36 a The Nayres maye not take anye Countrie women, and they also doe not marrie.

1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies iv. 108 Anon after the sermon ended, he demaunded of one what countrywoman the Virgin Marie was.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 99 A Hyrcanian Lady (which Countri-woman..his mother also was).

1683 A. Littleton tr. Plutarch Life Pericles in J. Dryden et al. tr. Plutarch Lives I. 560 He is thought to have done it in favour of Aspasia,..(she being that Country-woman).

1767 Diss. upon Head Dress 33 That lovely..feminine appearance, which I could never but think was peculiar to the ladies of our isle, above what I had observed in any other countrywomen whatever.

1799 E. Meeke Ellesmere IV. v. 157 His adored Baroness..declared herself very willing to bear his name, stipulating he should never mention what countrywoman she was.

1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xlvii. 341 Can you tell me what sort of person this lady is—where she lives—and what countrywoman she is?

1914 W. De Morgan When Ghost meets Ghost xiii. 136 You couldn't say, I suppose,..what countrywoman she was, now?