womenfolk
kaum wanita
definition
noun
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.
the women of a particular family or community considered collectively.
example
the men in the family never let their 'womenfolk' down
But the absence of the traditional enemy didn't spoil the fun for assortment of enthusiasts including gunslingers, gamblers, and their 'womenfolk' .
The ambassador's glamorous ex-mistress Gloria Swanson did not crash the party, as the 'womenfolk' of both families had feared.
Born in Secrore, the European quarter of Benares, he grew up among the 'womenfolk' in the family home in India, much loved and indulged, and contrary to the usual practice was not sent back to England for an education until he was twelve.
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.
In fact, as I await my Sunday lunch (chop, chop, look sharp - I'm watching footer on the telly at two), that's all I seem to have - 'womenfolk' .
Alex and Rhena were all revved up with horsey mania, so around the city we clippety went, with our 'womenfolk' waving to the passing trams.
The 'womenfolk' of the Longbridge workers - the phrase is not inaccurate - are preparing to bring a mass demonstration to London.
So we are doomed, by our very vitality, to earlier deaths than our 'womenfolk' .
The wiseguys, their cowering subordinates, their stoic 'womenfolk' and the dead bodies around them are all chickens - and they are mostly all children.
The father of the family happened to be here being thoroughly neighbourly & good, but out of earshot of his 'womenfolk' , and thus we learned what was actually going on.
I had watched as all the 'womenfolk' in my family had become peasants.
Once derisively referred to as the chanars (toddy tappers), the 'womenfolk' of the community were never allowed to cover the upper portion of their bodies.
My 'womenfolk' packed kosher-beef sandwiches for me.
A new mural on the outside wall of the town hall depicts, in raw Forties naturalist style, a German soldier heroically protecting his 'womenfolk' .
I can hear them whispering in the kitchen, the 'womenfolk' in my family.
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.
There are everyday photos in the style of Frank Meadows Sutcliffe of fishermen and their 'womenfolk' , and examples of the smocks and oilskins worn by them.
More than a century ago, to give his 'womenfolk' an illusory monsoon during the hottest months, a maharana created the Maids of Honour garden.
Four years younger than Prince George, Marina was everything Britain's royal 'womenfolk' at that time were not.
In the past, for the 'womenfolk' in the family, festival day was the ‘day of toil’, cooking and serving.
The nomads, he said, were intensely jealous of strange men catching sight of their 'womenfolk' , so I should stay in the Landcruiser while he advanced half way across the scrub.
The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their 'womenfolk' , with broad chests, powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.
These colours were also used in a warp-weighted loom for making large areas of cloth, and would have been operated by the 'womenfolk' of every household.
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.
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