bondswoman

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From bond + -s- + woman.

But in spite of all their sufferings, the poor bondswomen keep up well. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson
Her captor, a thoroughpaced old rascal, had now settled, with all his ill-gotten gains, as a small landowner, on the shore of the Bay of Varna, where she was still his bondswoman--his slave. — One of the Six Hundred: A Novel, James Grant
In Scotland these poor creatures seem, even at a late period, to have been bondswomen to their masters, as appears from a case reported by Fountainhall: 'Reid the mountebank pursues Scot of Harden and his lady for stealing away from him a little girl, called the tumbling-lassie, that dance upon his stage; and he claimed damages, and produced a contract, whereby he bought her from her mother for £30 Scots. — The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott

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