a.  A woman of a (specified) country, or of one’s own country (fellow-countrywoman). b. A woman who lives in the country or rural parts.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 109/2. Contremann, or womann, compatriota.

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1582.  [see COUNTRY 13 b].

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1606.  Shaks., Tr. & Cr., IV. i. 67. You are too bitter to your country-woman.

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1634.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 99. A Hyrcanian Lady (which Countri-woman … his mother also was).

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1679.  Hist. Jetzer, 37. To dress him up like a Countrey-woman.

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1824.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 86. Her fair countrywomen.

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1872.  Morley, Voltaire (1886), 49. Conceiving an undying passion … for a young countrywoman whom he found in Holland.

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