polyandristn.
/ˌpɒlɪˈandrɪst/, U.S. /ˌpɑliˈændrəst/ A person who practises polyandry; a woman who has two or more husbands or male sexual partners at the same time. Also in extended use. Cf. polygynist n.In quot. 1833 figurative. In quot. 1887 euphemistic: a prostitute.
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polyandrist1833
1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 33 143 Her elder sister, Imagination, once so prolific in her loveliness, a Polyandrist with all her Passions of old.
1878 C. Wake Evol. Morality II. 241 From the legend of the Pendavas,..it would seem that they [sc. the Kshatriyas] were actually polyandrists.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 July 2/1 Attempts to make the regulation of the movements of female polyandrists a police function.
1897 B. Stoker Dracula xiii. 179 Then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me,..even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, am bigamist.
1957 P. M. Mitchell Hist. Danish Lit. xiv. 267 He created a remarkable woman, Barbara, who, though a polyandrist at heart, is such a child of nature that she evokes the sympathy of the reader.
2001 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 May a17/5 There are probably fewer than 600 polyandrists in active practice today [in the U.S.], presumably in a conservative ratio of one woman to two men.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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