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单词 woman doctor
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woman doctor
(a) Prefixed to designations of occupation, employment, or status, esp. those traditionally applied to men, to indicate that the person referred to is a woman, as woman doctor, woman driver, woman friend, woman officer, woman teacher, etc.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 3 Kings xvii. 9 A womman widuwe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 29420 If þou wit þi woman frend Find clerk be doand dede vn-hende.
a1450 (?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Royal) (1886) 33 A womman-paynym þat was his moder.
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 600/47 Sacerdotissa patrina, a wommangossyb.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 289/2 Woman coke, cuisiniere.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 258 The famous woman poet Sapho.
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος Ep. Ded. sig. d Wee are so wise now, that wee have our woman Politicians.
1675 T. Brooks Word in Season Gen. Ep., in Paradice Opened sig. 4*4 A Woman-martyr, who..offered her self to Martyrdom.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 568 A Woman-Warrior was too strong for thee.
1706 M. Prior Ode to Queen xxvi The Woman Chief is Master of the War.
1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. ix. 756 One Woman-Slave was ravish'd from thy Arms.
1763 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. at Ædituus The female deities had a woman-officer of this kind called a Æditua.
1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 54 A woman-shearer, through the harvest, is reckoned equal to the rent of a cottage and yard.
1854 C. Dickens Child's Hist. Eng. III. xxix. 73 Edward was now sinking in a rapid decline..they handed him over to a woman-doctor who pretended to be able to cure it.
1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly I. i. 2 With scarcely a woman-friend in the world.
1899 W. James Talks to Teachers ii. i. 227 What our girl-students and woman-teachers most need..is..the toning-down of their moral tensions.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 Apr. 9/4 [She] requested that Miss Thompson, now acting for the organization as a social worker, be recognized as a woman police officer.
1933 N. Waln House of Exile i. vi. 96 A Western educated woman doctor.
1968 R. L. Fish Bridge that went Nowhere iv. 44 I might have known it would be a woman driver!
1979 Guardian 5 May 12/2 Becoming Britain's first woman Prime Minister is one [achievement]..that can only change perceptions of what women can aspire to.
1992 Daily Express 8 June 6/3 The terrorists..sprayed bullets at a pursuing police car, narrowly missing a woman officer.
2007 J. Medlicott Come walk with Me 208 Here I am today without a trusted woman friend to chat and relax with, much less confide in.
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