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menstruater en · NOUN

Etymology

From menstruate + -er.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of menstruator.
   alt of menstruator
   • Benedict announces the topic of girls' puberty by sketching various rites of passage that display dramatic practices of purity/pollution: first, Carrier Indians who figuratively bury alive novice menstruaters, isolating them for three years; second, Apache attitudes about first menses as occasions for supernatural sources of beneficial cure. 1999, James A. Boon, Verging on Extra-vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts ... Showbiz, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 30:
   • Rhythm is the least efficient of the contraceptive methods thus far discussed, because of the variability of the menses even in regular menstruaters, […] 1959, Alan F. Guttmacher, Babies by Choice or by Chance, Doubleday, page 50:
   • The menstruater is defiled and defiling because, as she bleeds, she strays beyond the socialized towards the realm of death. 1996, John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 55:

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