Amishwoman

English

Etymology

From Amish +‎ -woman.

Noun

Amishwoman (plural Amishwomen)

1. A female member of the Amish.
   • 1995, Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits, The Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 119:

     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.

   • 2006, Pauline Stevick, Beyond the Plain and Simple: A Patchwork of Amish Lives, The Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 79:

     Old Order Amishwomen wear plain-cut dresses fitted loosely at the waist and sometimes fashioned with a capelike appendage over the bodice.

   • 2016, Beverly Lewis, The Wish, →ISBN:

     Gloria 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.

Hypernyms

• Amishperson

Coordinate terms

• Amishman