| 单词 | fellow-countrywoman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfellow-countrywoman 1. Usually with possessive adjective. A woman from one's own country; also in fellow-countrywoman. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > compatriots > [noun] > compatriot > woman countrywoman1440 homegirl1879 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 109/2 Contremann, or womann, compatriota. 1563 T. Becon Reliques of Rome (rev. ed.) f. 73v A certain maide called Clara, a countreywoman and Disciple of Fraunces the Fryer. c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 170 Alþouh shee waz born in Gloster, & I in þe furþest part of Somerset..yet..I in mirth kald her alwaiz kuntreywoma<n>. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. i. 69 You are too bitter to your country-woman . View more context for this quotation 1673 J. Dryden Amboyna iii. 35 Come Country woman, I must call you so; since he who owns my Heart is English born. 1741 S. Keimer Caribbeana I. 56 To our Lovely Country-Women, who are single, the Barbadian Batchelors, and Widowers, send lovingly Greeting. 1785 J. Q. Adams Diary 12 Oct. (1981) I. 276 He [sc. a Frenchman] was married there, to an American. It does not give me pleasure to see my Countrywomen form such connections. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 242 Her fair countrywomen. 1892 Harper's Mag. May 950/1 Two hundred years ago Mary Astell wrote, as she was pleading for a wider education for her countrywomen. 1933 A. Christie in Sat. Evening Post 21 Oct. 74 I am perhaps old-fashioned, but me, I find the American women less charming than my own countrywomen. 1976 A. Delius Border 208 ‘How do you like your fellow countrywoman?’... I said I thought she was charming. 2010 E. J. Jensen Body by Weimar iii. 108 Her success, along with that of her countrywomen, made the 1920s an unprecedented era for female athletes in Germany. < as lemmas |
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