swordswoman
nounEtymology From sword + -s- + -woman.
1
A woman skilled at using swords in combat.
- Arwen is portrayed as a valiant swordswoman in the Lord of the Rings films.
- Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn‘t take you seriously until you‘d actually killed them, by which time it didn‘t really matter anyway.1986, Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic, published 2022, page 160:
- Derived terms
- swordswomanship