bondswoman

NOUN
  1. someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else
  2. a female slave
  3. a female bound to serve without wages
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How To Use bondswoman In A Sentence

  • It would have been enough to break the heart of a person who had calculated upon getting a fortune, which I never did; for I felt always like an intruder and a bondswoman, and had wished myself out of the Petherwin family a hundred times, with my crust of bread and liberty. The Hand of Ethelberta
  • If you can't even take the risk not to wear a tie or make-up according to your birth sex if you want to make your way in this world then you are either a bondsman or a bondswoman; in short a slave. Let's put women first in 2011 | Mervyn Davies
  • This naive offer, made without the hope of recompense, though a byzant would not have paid for the special grace of this speech; and the modesty of the gesture with which the poor girl turned to him gained the heart of the jeweller, who would have liked to be able to put this bondswoman into the skin of a queen, and Paris at her feet. Droll Stories — Volume 3
  • To no son of Dermid shall I be delivered, to be fed like a bondswoman; but he who is my pleasure and my pride shall be my guard and my protector. Chronicles of the Canongate
  • Saxons were heathens at that time, or at least heretics, and made a positive point with her husband that the bondswoman and girl who were to attend on her person and that of her daughter, should be qualified for the office by being anew admitted into the Christian Church by baptism. Count Robert of Paris
  • Then she says to me, ‘O my lord, Allah upon thee, do not refuse to take the cup from the hand of thine hand maid, for verily I am thy bondswoman.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • There's a deceased ex-wife who offers advice from the hereafter, a band of escaped prisoners from the 1960s wreaking havoc on modern-day society and a bail bondswoman who learns that she's really a fairy-tale princess. Must Be the Season of the Weird
  • But, when Princess Manar al-Sana saw her sister in this plight, a bondswoman and in fetters, she wept over her and said, “O my sister, who is this hath conquered us and made us captives in our own country?” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • One for the Money by Janet Evanovich: Evanovich found her voice from the very beginning with the tough but charming Trenton bail bondswoman Stephanie Plum. An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
  • He used a term in Arabic which means literally "bondswoman," someone who is bonded to him. CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2003
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