Taliswoman
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Taliswoman is a noun meaning A talisman in the form of a female figure.
Meaning
A talisman in the form of a female figure.
Example Sentences
'She's been with me through a lot,' he smiled. 'She's my taliswoman. Anyway. Cheers.'
She then scattered these taliswomen throughout The Birth of Venus, putting some in boxes, using others to line walls.
When Beverly Allen left the Geary Street apartment for her family home in Oakland later that night, she gave Brautigan the painted Mexican doll (her “taliswoman”) as a keepsake.
We stare into the bottomless laminated eyes of the Virgen de Guadalupe, Hector's taliswoman against Katrina and his own dead family, and now ours against the silencing of Gloria.
Word Forms
- taliswomen
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include talisman, fetish, totem, thealogian, goddess, divineress.
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