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taliswoman en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of talisman + woman.

Meanings

1. A talisman in the form of a female figure.
   • We stare into the bottomless laminated eyes of the Virgen de Guadalupe, Hector's taliswoman against Katrina and his own dead family, and now ours against the silencing of Gloria. 2012, Matthew Gavin Frank, Pot Farm, →ISBN, page 206:
   • She then scattered these taliswomen throughout The Birth of Venus, putting some in boxes, using others to line walls. 2017, Amy Sara Carroll, REMEX: Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era, →ISBN, page 188:
   • When Beverly Allen left the Geary Street apartment for her family home in Oakland later that night, she gave Brautigan the painted Mexican doll (her “taliswoman”) as a keepsake. 2012, William Hjortsberg, Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan, →ISBN:
   • 'She's been with me through a lot,' he smiled. 'She's my taliswoman. Anyway. Cheers.' 2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call:

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