| 单词 | highwaywoman |
| 释义 | > as lemmashighwaywoman highwaywoman n. [after highwayman n.] a woman who holds up travellers on a highway at gunpoint in order to rob them; a female highwayman. ΚΠ 1734 ‘C. Johnson’ Gen. Hist. Lives Highwaymen 192 (heading) The Life of Mol Cutpurse, a Pick-pocket, and Highway-woman. 1840 Colburn's Kalendar Amusem. 347 Like highwaywomen crying out, ‘Your purse, or your life!’ 1903 P. W. Joyce Social Hist. Anc. Ireland I. iv. 896 In the life of St. Mochua of Balla there is a curious account of two highway-women... When a traveller came up they laid hold of him and demanded all his valuables. 2006 P. Parrinder Nation & Novel ii. 48 His adventure with three amorous highwaywomen ends in disappointment. < as lemmas |
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