Definition of "freedwoman" [freedwoman]

• A woman who has been freed from slavery. (noun)

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• "If, however, there are several descendants of a patron or patroness, or of two or several, the nearest in degree is to take the succession of the freedman or freedwoman, which is to be divided, not among the stocks, but by counting the heads of those nearest in degree."
• "Near a window shaded by towering trees is a small framed silhouette, also by Walker, called "Bureau of Refugees: Committed an outrage on a freedwoman.""
• "Although Vespasian was not a member of a high-ranking Roman family, the leges Juliae passed by Augustus had decreed that marriage between an equestrian and a freedwoman was forbidden."