Taliswoman

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"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."

Etymology

Blend of talisman + woman.

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