| 单词 | woman market |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswoman market woman market n. †(a) a market selling things suitable for women (obsolete); (b) a market where women are sold as slaves (now historical); (frequently figurative and in extended use) a society, event, etc., in which women are treated as a commodity or otherwise exploited. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place > for other specific goods woman market1443 bigg-marketa1733 stock-market1858 1443 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 408 (modernized text) A lane next the Womanmarket. 1531 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 366 Item of the Bayly of Whatton for a tenement byneth the Hencros in the Woman Merkett. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 206 Another Lady then demanded if we had not a Woman Market, and if they were not Slaves in my Country as they were here? 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 69 He never yet had set his daughter forth Here in the woman-markets of the west. 1906 H. W. Nevinson Mod. Slavery iii. 53 He did not complain of the price, though men who were better acquainted with the uses of the woman-market considered it unnecessarily high. 2005 P. Camiller tr. P. Monzini Sex Traffic 156 Young female migrants may be attracted, deluded, tricked or snared into the cheapest sectors of prostitution, at any point in their trip... Structures have now taken shape that may be said to constitute a veritable ‘woman market’. < as lemmas |
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