cragswoman
English
Etymology
From crag + -s- + -woman.
Noun
cragswoman (plural cragswomen)
- A female cragsman.
- 1832, [Frances Milton] Trollope, The Refugee in America: A Novel, volume I, London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., […], chapter XVII, page 27:
- Nothing at all resembling a path appeared, but Lady Darcy had travelled in search of the picturesque, and was no contemptible “cragswoman.”
- 1836 April, Georgina Smith, “The Pirate’s Cave”, in The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, page 194, column 1:
- “You are no cragswoman, Lady,” said Blanch, stopping abruptly beneath a part of the cliff which seemed to the stranger’s unpractised ken more precipitous than at any other part, “else would I advise our climbing this somewhat steep ascent—there was a path here once, and could I find it ’twould save much time, whilst should we be pursued they will scarce think that you would venture. […]”
- 1855 December, B., “The Old House of Darkbrothers.—Part II.”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume XLVI, number CCLXXVI, page 673:
- […] but I shall go in the yawl of Captain Ashley’s sloop, which crosses in the morning, too early for young cragswomen like you to be astir.