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menstruater

menstruater

English

Noun

menstruater (plural menstruaters)

  1. Alternative form of menstruator.
    • 1959, Alan F. Guttmacher, Babies by Choice or by Chance, Doubleday (1959), page 50:
      Rhythm is the least efficient of the contraceptive methods thus far discussed, because of the variability of the menses even in regular menstruaters, []
    • 1996, John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon, Clarendon Press (1996), ISBN 9780198121862, page 55:
      The menstruater is defiled and defiling because, as she bleeds, she strays beyond the socialized towards the realm of death.
    • 1999, James A. Boon, Verging on Extra-vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts ... Showbiz, Princeton University Press (1999), ISBN 9780691016313, page 30:
      Benedict announces the topic of girls' puberty by sketching various rites of passage that display dramatic practices of purity/pollution: first, Carrier Indians who figuratively bury alive novice menstruaters, isolating them for three years; second, Apache attitudes about first menses as occasions for supernatural sources of beneficial cure.