tribeswoman
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- noun
- /ˈtraɪbzˌwʊmən/
:
mujer de la tribu
- Here, in rural Botswana, an unfaithful tribeswoman is brought to a field by a group of locals for a ritualized punishment of beating and harassment.
Examples
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The villagers said she had learned her craft from a Miao tribeswoman.
Fiction book (1993) -
For while she hides in terror rather than risk an attempt to assist her tribeswoman, only hours later, Pauline locks three men in the coldhouse, committing her first vengeful murders.
Academic text (1997) -
To Ramona Peters, a tribeswoman of the Wampanoag Nations of Eastern Massachusetts, "The deep purpose of the pilgrimage was to cleanse this land.
Academic text (1999) -
In 1912, when Fleur comes to town to find a job at Kozka's Meats, the outcast Pauline becomes increasingly jealous of her tribeswoman's natural powers.
Academic text (1997) -
He's about to turn the statuette over to me when Dwaine snatches it, gripping it to his chest like a Bambuti tribeswoman suckling her newborn.
Academic text (2007) -
The villagers said she had learned her craft from a tribeswoman.
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A Hmong tribeswoman from the mountains of Laos, she was proud of her heritage.
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As a tribeswoman of the Wampanoag Nations, she shared stories of her ancestors.
Synonyms
A person who lives in a small community that shares the same customs
A woman who belongs to a group of related families
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tribeswoman combines tribe and woman; tribe means 'a group of people who share the same culture or land' and woman means 'an adult female'. So a tribeswoman is a woman who belongs to a traditional or indigenous community.