Woman-fashion
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Woman-fashion is an adverb meaning In the manner in which a woman is thought or expected to act.
Meaning
In the manner in which a woman is thought or expected to act.
More Meanings
- Sidesaddle, riding (a horse, etc.) with both legs on the same side of the animal.
Example Sentences
Lloyd turned to her mail, and one after another slit the envelopes, woman fashion, with a shell hair-pin.
He imagined her tiny, lithe figure at his side, on a horse she would mount not woman-fashion but astride […]
Yet in spite of this profound intimacy, this flirtation of private minds, she was still hungry to get nearer to him, to devour him woman-fashion.
1953, Algis Budrys, “Dream of Victory” in Amazing Stories, Volume 27, No. 6, August-September 1953, p. 43, Lisa clenched her fists, knuckles forward, woman-fashion.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include womanlike, womanwise, womanly, womanfully, femalely, womanishly.
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