militiawomann.
/mᵻˈlɪʃəˌwʊmən/, U.S. /məˈlɪʃəˌwʊm(ə)n/ Originally: = miliciana n. Later: a female member of a militia.
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1936 New Statesman 21 Nov. 802/1 The C.N.T., since it contains a great many Murcians.., includes the most alarming of the faces met with in Barcelona and also most of the young militia-women.
1938 ‘G. Orwell’ Homage to Catalonia iv. 47 There were three militiawomen there who did the cooking.
1977 O. Schell China (1978) I. 23 Long-playing records cost about 2.50 yuan and include such songs as ‘Militia Women in the Grasslands Bring Coal to the People's Liberation Army in the Snow’.
2000 Independent 21 Sept. 11 Another solo portrait, of a beautiful young militia woman with a rifle staring away to her left, in a pose so happily symmetrical with the Che icon that you could set them side by side as a revolutionary diptych.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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