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tribeswoman

[ trahybz-woom-uhn ]

noun

, plural tribes·wom·en.
  1. a female member of a tribe.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tribeswoman1

First recorded in 1850–55; tribe ( def ) + 's 1( def ) + woman ( def )
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Example Sentences

MBS’s mother, Fahda, is a Bedouin tribeswoman and seen as the favourite of his father’s four wives.

From BBC

In Round Valley, Deb Hutt, a Yuki tribeswoman and the sister of Oandasan, said she wonders why descendants of the Hastings family have never apologized.

In the 1800s, when the Zezuru tribe in southern Africa was approached by marauders, the tribe would dispatch a chorus line of topless tribeswoman to daze the attackers by shaking their breasts suggestively at them.

An essay last month in the Islamic State’s official propaganda organ, al-Naba, sought to rally more women to the fight by invoking a famous female warrior from Islam’s early history: Nusaybah bit Ka’ab, a 7th-century tribeswoman who took up a sword to assist the prophet Muhammad when he was surrounded by enemies in battle.

Across the stage, the tall Tribal boy from earlier is dancing with a dainty Tribeswoman who has a smile like lightning.

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