Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who practises polyandry.
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- noun A woman who practices
polyandry
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- noun a woman with two or more husbands
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Examples
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Shameless polyandrist, she maintains several consorts — from three to five seems to be the average number — and they, semi-transparent, feeble, meek, subdued little fellows, maintain precarious isolated existences in the outskirts of the web.
Tropic Days 2003
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There this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church's law, though no wits, all gone -- even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, am bigamist.
Dracula 1897
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"Precisely, my diaphanous polyandrist; but it isn't quite your own affair what you laugh at -- not if I know it!"
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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"Precisely, my diaphanous polyandrist; but it isn't quite your own affair what you laugh at -- not if I know it!"
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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"Precisely, my diaphanous polyandrist; but it isn't quite your own affair what you laugh at -- not if I know it!"
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 4 Gilbert Parker 1897
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Shameless polyandrist, she maintains several consorts -- from three to five seems to be the average number -- and they, semi-transparent, feeble, meek, subdued little fellows, maintain precarious isolated existences in the outskirts of the web.
Tropic Days 1887
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Then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by
Dracula Bram Stoker 1879
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The 32-year old actress will play a polyandrist in her forthcoming film Housefull which co-stars Ritesh Dekhmukh and Akshay Kumar as her two husbands.
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The 32-year old actress will play a polyandrist in her forthcoming film Housefull which co-stars Ritesh Deshmukh and Akshay Kumar as her two husbands.
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Then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church’s law, though no wits, all gone, even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, am bigamist.”
Dracula 2003
myth commented on the word polyandrist
A woman with two or more husbands.
March 28, 2009