单词 | medicine woman |
释义 | > as lemmasmedicine woman medicine woman n. a female healer or shaman among North American Indians; cf. medicine man n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > non-European magic (miscellaneous) > [noun] > sorcerer or medicine man > American Indian medicine man1801 medicine1817 medicine woman1834 mystery1841 mystery man1841 mediciner1852 1834 Knickerbocker 4 372 The mother evinced her sagacity, as a diviner or medicine woman. 1932 F. B. Linderman Red Mother 9 Pretty-shield is a ‘Wise-one’, a medicine-woman, of the Crow tribe. 1992 Independent 6 Jan. 28/2 He may have been voted Atlantic City Entertainer of the Year in 1985, but he has also trance danced with Shabaree Redbird, a Lakota medicine woman. < as lemmas |
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