womenfolk

Example Sentences

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She counselled womenfolk about the evils of banditry, turning the mothers or daughters of dacoits against the practice.

From BBC

This is, uh, not what we womenfolk have been told for the last decade or so.

From Seattle Times

Hers were a perfect form in a society which valued delicacy in its womenfolk.

From Economist

Significantly, they are all male: back then, men did their partying in public, while their womenfolk waited demurely at home.

From The Guardian

There is something of the medieval battle convention to this; when a knight is vanquished, all his womenfolk just have to spontaneously join a nunnery, or become vowesses.

From The Guardian