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单词 field wife
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field wife
field wife n. Obsolete (a) a peasant woman; (b) a woman who is taken from the field and treated as a wife (spec. in regard to sexual relations, with allusion to the rape of Dinah in Genesis 34:1–2); (c) a woman who spends her time in the fields.Sense (b) apparently represents an isolated use.
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?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 794 (MED) Hec rustica, a fyldwyfe.
1591 H. Smith Preparatiue to Mariage 35 Not a street-wife, like Thamar, nor a field-wife, like Dinah; but a house-wife.
1617 S. Rowlands Bride sig. Ev Shee scornes to be a streete-wife (Idle one,) Or field wife ranging with her walking mates.
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