sister of Eve

noun

An archetypical woman, sharing the same human nature as all other women.

Meanings

nounsister of Eve (plural sisters of Eve)

plural sisters of Eve

  1. 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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