womanhead
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English wommanhede; synchronically analyzable as woman + -head.
NounEdit
womanhead (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of womanhood. [14th–19th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XI:
- Vnder that Porch a comely dame did rest, / Clad in faire weedes, but fowle disordered, / And garments loose, that seemd vnmeet for womanhed.