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Definition of Sportswomen
1. sportswoman [n] - See also: sportswoman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sportswomen
Literary usage of Sportswomen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1898)
"Lady Dorothy Coventry also holds a place in the front rank of sportswomen, and
is as enthusiastic a lover of hunting as her elder sister. ..."
2. Outing (1893)
"A party of sportswomen were stopping at one of the hotels along its borders in the
... enjoying themselves as ambitious and independent sportswomen will, ..."
3. Finland and the Finns by Arthur Reade (1917)
"Many of them are excellent sportswomen, being adepts in ski-ing, skating, sailing,
rowing and swimming, and it is when engaged in these pursuits that they ..."
4. The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin (1997)
"... sportsmen and sportswomen are either jetting around the globe or traveling
from one exhibition game to another, barely able to breathe, never mind to ..."
5. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1902)
"In the fifteenth century they were still sportswomen wearing garments of a rather
more shapely description, and in the sixteenth, too, aided and abetted by ..."
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