bondswoman

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But the family still hadn’t had enough to cover Brittany’s bond, so Ramona had given a bondswoman the titles to her cars and her mother’s wedding rings as collateral.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

I promised to marry her to my man Scipione as soon as possible, since protection of some sort was necessary to a bondswoman who had run away from the land to which she belonged.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Shame! shame that this should be! that she should have mistaken vile schemes for love, that a liar's kisses should have polluted her soul! that she should be the wife, the bondswoman of a cheat!

From The Nest of the Sparrowhawk by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Whereto she will reply 'Thou art the lord and I am the bondswoman.'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Then she says to me, 'O my lord, Allah upon thee, do not refuse to take the cup from the hand of thine hand maid, for verily I am thy bondswoman.'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir