Meanings
plural Amishwomen
- A female member of the Amish.
Old Order Amishwomen wear plain-cut dresses fitted loosely at the waist and sometimes fashioned with a capelike appendage over the bodice.
2006, Pauline Stevick, Beyond the Plain and Simple: A Patchwork of Amish Lives, The Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 792 more examples
Amishwomen who sell quilts on consignment through non-Amish outlets will not deal with retail shops that are open on Sundays. They worry that customers might purchase one of their items on the Lord’s Day and thus implicate them in its desecration.
1995, Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits, The Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 119Gloria stared at the white cotton nightgown, similar to the ones she’d often worn, and the length of Leona’s hair, which, like all Old Order Amishwomen’s, had never been cut, only trimmed.
2016, Beverly Lewis, The Wish, →ISBN
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