Highwaywoman

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The female equivalent of a highwayman.

    "They set up a hue and cry for the three highwaywomen, who were at length discovered at a low tavern, spending some of the nearly twelve pounds they had gotten from the sale of Agnes's property."

  2. 2
    a holdup woman who stops a vehicle and steals from it wordnet

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"They set up a hue and cry for the three highwaywomen, who were at length discovered at a low tavern, spending some of the nearly twelve pounds they had gotten from the sale of Agnes's property."

Etymology

From highway + woman.

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