crossbow-woman

crossbow-woman (plural crossbow-women)

1. Alternative form of crossbowwoman.
   • 1896 October 1, Martin A. S. Hume, “Philip II. in His Domestic Relations”, in The Fortnightly Review, number CCCLVIII, page 546:

     “O!” he says, “you must be grand crossbow-women, both of you, to kill so many bucks and rabbits as you say. […]”

   • 2000, Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 509:

     loria and Richard Faversham knelt in a protective cordon of billmen, a thrashing yelling body between them – the crossbow-woman, Ludmilla Rostovnaya – rolling bloody on the cobbles; Fiona’s surgeon's box open, bandages welling red with blood.

   • 2001, Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice, Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 405:

     Gruntle jogged towards the troop of Grey Swords. Seeing no obvious officer, he elected the crossbow-woman nearest him. ‘What’s the situation here, soldier?’

   • 2006, S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling, A Meeting at Corvallis, Roc Books, →ISBN, page 241:

     A lot of the crossbowmen were actually crossbow-women.

   • 2010, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt), Amherst, N.Y.: Pyr, →ISBN, page 76:

     You ever see a Spider-kinden crossbow-woman?