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ˈwoman-child arch.
Pl. ˈwomen-ˌchildren.
[woman n. 6 b.]
A female child.
1558T. Watson 7 Sacram. iii. 15 If it be a woman childe, than let the christener say thus, [etc.]. 1560Becon New Catech. vi. Wks. 1564 I. 537 It is expedient, yt..scholes for women children be erected. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis iv. viii. 265 The women, by stealth, put a woman-child into the Princes cradle. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. xvii. 449 The father might..assign a guardian to any woman-child under the age of sixteen. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 183 Such a temper—in one so young—..a child—a woman-child. 1866Lytton Lost Tales Miletus 108 An aged king, to whom the fates had spared But one fair woman-child. |