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warman en · NOUN

Etymology

From war + -man.

Meanings

1. (archaic, rare) A warrior.
   • The Yusun Clan either fled or surrendered in the face of these huge-boned, bronzed, godlike Warmen. 1989, Richard La Plante, Tegné: Soul Warrior, Tor, →ISBN, page 13:
   • Our entrance was attended with the usual ceremony, now familiar to the reader: the warmen danced, shot, and shouted, a rabble of adults, youths and boys crowded upon us, the fair sex lulliloo'd with vigor[.] 1881, Bayard Taylor, The Lake Regions of Central Africa, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 147:
   • The warmen went to the other side of the brook Kubi; they stopped there to deliberate. 1876, Grammar of the Fulde Language, Church Missionary House, page 297:

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