womanhead en · NOUN
Etymology
From Middle English wommanhede. By surface analysis, woman + -head.
Meanings
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(alt-of, obsolete, uncountable) Obsolete form of womanhood.
alt of womanhood
Vnder that Porch a comely dame did rest, / Clad in faire weedes, but fowle disordered, / And garments loose, that seemd vnmeet for womanhed.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: