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laywoman

[ ley-woom-uhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural lay·wom·en.

laywoman

/ ˈleɪwʊmən /

a woman who is not a member of the clergy
a woman who does not have specialized or professional knowledge of a subject
a guide for the laywoman

First recorded in 1520–30; lay ³ + woman

One Italian paper even suggested that an unnamed laywoman had secretly ordered the butler to do it.

But when you speak of man acting as a unit he is a layman, but you never say a laywoman.

It was reasonable to suppose that a laywoman would not succeed where physicians had failed.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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