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freedwoman

[ freed-woom-uhn ]

noun

, plural freed·wom·en.
  1. a woman who has been freed from slavery.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of freedwoman1

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70; freed ( def ) + woman
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Example Sentences

A freedwoman had roused superstitious fear in the heart of a daughter of the Cæsars!

I saw them just now, right across the Forum, when the wretched freedwoman clung shrieking round my shins.

Some measure of the situation may be taken from what befell when the freedwoman Claudia Acte became the mistress of Nero.

She wrote a few words also, committing care over Lygia to Nero's freedwoman, Acte.

This young freedwoman was of a character far superior to the mode of life into which she had been forced while still a slave.

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