womanhead

English

Etymology

From Middle English wommanhede. By surface analysis, woman +‎ -head.

Noun

womanhead (uncountable)

Obsolete form of womanhood. [14th–19th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Vnder that Porch a comely dame did rest, / Clad in faire weedes, but fowle disordered, / And garments loose, that seemd vnmeet for womanhed.

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