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frontierswoman /ˈfrʌntɪəzˌwʊmən /noun (plural frontierswomen)A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country: a frontierswoman who can shoot, scuffle, and spin tall tales...- Calamity's an uncouth, sarsaparilla-swilling, gun-slinging frontierswoman who can shoot, scuffle, and spin tall tales as well as any man alive.
- She was a seven-foot-tall, 480-pound frontierswoman from the Utah Territory who could shoot and drink like a man and bend nails with her tongue.
- The goal is to portray the lives of real frontierswomen and challenge the legitimacy of the colorful but inauthentic typologies of them.
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