Meanings
plural sisters of Eve
- datedAn archetypical woman, sharing the same human nature as all other women.
The aboriginal women are true-bred sisters of Eve, just as modern in their tantrums and loves and jealousies and vanities as their white sisters.
1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 158
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