[f. ENGLISH + WOMAN.] A woman who is English by descent, birth or naturalization: see ENGLISHMAN.
1530. Palsgr., 217/1. Englysshewoman, anglesche.
1647. Ward, Simp. Cobler (ed. 4), 23. Never was any people under the Sun, so sick … of new fashions as English-women.
1817. Byron, Beppo, lxxxix. Where an Englishwoman sometimes faints, Italian females don’t do so outright.
1860. Froude, Hist. Eng., VI. 42. Above all things let her remember to be a good English-woman.
