Womenfolk

Definition

womenfolk /'wÇmÇnfǝƱk/ n [pl] ( fml or joc ) မိန္းမေတြ။ The dead soldiers were mourned by their womenfolk. Compare MENFOLK

Examples

1. ‘The father of the family happened to be here being thoroughly neighbourly & good
2. but out of earshot of his womenfolk
3. and thus we learned what was actually going on.’
4. ‘More than a century ago
5. to give his womenfolk an illusory monsoon during the hottest months
6. a maharana created the Maids of Honour garden.’
7. ‘My womenfolk packed kosher-beef sandwiches for me.’
8. ‘On summer evenings the womenfolk of my family would put on their chador and go out for a stroll in one of the Mughal gardens.’
9. ‘The womenfolk of the Longbridge workers - the phrase is not inaccurate - are preparing to bring a mass demonstration to London.’
10. ‘The wiseguys
11. their cowering subordinates
12. their stoic womenfolk and the dead bodies around them are all chickens - and they are mostly all children.’
13. ‘Some are saying that many of the more religiously inclined families won't want their womenfolk voting so it might be permissible for the head of the family to take the women's ID and her ballot and do the voting for her.’
14. ‘Four years younger than Prince George
15. Marina was everything Britain's royal womenfolk at that time were not.’
16. ‘I can hear them whispering in the kitchen
17. the womenfolk in my family.’
18. ‘These colours were also used in a warp-weighted loom for making large areas of cloth
19. and would have been operated by the womenfolk of every household.’
20. ‘There are everyday photos in the style of Frank Meadows Sutcliffe of fishermen and their womenfolk
21. and examples of the smocks and oilskins worn by them.’
22. ‘I had watched as all the womenfolk in my family had become peasants.’
23. ‘But the absence of the traditional enemy didn't spoil the fun for assortment of enthusiasts including gunslingers
24. gamblers
25. and their womenfolk.’
26. ‘The most revengeful way to humiliate a family against whom disputes are pending is to subject the womenfolk in that family to crimes that rob them of their honour and dignity and bring them disrepute.’
27. ‘The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their womenfolk
28. with broad chests
29. powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.’
30. ‘Born in Secrore
31. the European quarter of Benares
32. he grew up among the womenfolk in the family home in India
33. much loved and indulged
34. and contrary to the usual practice was not sent back to England for an education until he was twelve.’
35. ‘In the past
36. for the womenfolk in the family
37. festival day was the ‘day of toil’
38. cooking and serving.’
39. ‘So we are doomed
40. by our very vitality
41. to earlier deaths than our womenfolk.’
42. ‘Once derisively referred to as the chanars (toddy tappers)
43. the womenfolk of the community were never allowed to cover the upper portion of their bodies.’
44. ‘The ambassador's glamorous ex-mistress Gloria Swanson did not crash the party
45. as the womenfolk of both families had feared.’