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freedwoman

NOUN
  1. a person who has been freed from slavery

How To Use freedwoman In A Sentence

  • She had listened from a respectful distance, and with the humble deference born of years of bondage, to the honeyed words with which the great lady deigned to cajole a girl-slave: but when Dea Flavia had finished speaking and the chorus of admiration had died down around her, the freedwoman, with steps which she vainly tried to render firm, approached to the foot of the catasta and stood between the great lady and her own child. "Unto Caesar"
  • Although Vespasian was not a member of a high-ranking Roman family, the leges Juliae passed by Augustus had decreed that marriage between an equestrian and a freedwoman was forbidden. Caesars’ Wives
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