womanhead

English

Etymology

From Middle English wommanhede; synchronically analyzable as woman +‎ -head.

Noun

womanhead (uncountable)

1. 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.