womanhead

English

Etymology

From woman +‎ -head.

Noun

womanhead (uncountable)

(obsolete) Womanhood. [14th–19th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XI:
  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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