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cragswoman en · NOUN

Etymology

From crag + -s- + -woman.

Meanings

1. A female cragsman.
   • Nothing at all resembling a path appeared, but Lady Darcy had travelled in search of the picturesque, and was no contemptible “cragswoman.” 1832, [Frances Milton] Trollope, The Refugee in America: A Novel, volume I, London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., […], chapter XVII, page 27:
   • “You are no cragswoman, Lady,” said Blanch, stopping abruptly beneath a part of the cliff which seemed to the stranger’s unpractised ken more precipitous than at any other part, “else would I advise our climbing this somewhat steep ascent—there was a path here once, and could I find it ’twould save much time, whilst should we be pursued they will scarce think that you would venture.[…]” 1836 April, Georgina Smith, “The Pirate’s Cave”, in The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, page 194, column 1:
   • […]but I shall go in the yawl of Captain Ashley’s sloop, which crosses in the morning, too early for young cragswomen like you to be astir. 1855 December, B., “The Old House of Darkbrothers.—Part II.”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume XLVI, number CCLXXVI, page 673:

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