menstruater
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
menstruate + -er
Noun[edit]
menstruater (plural menstruaters)
- Alternative form of menstruator.
- 1959, Alan F. Guttmacher, Babies by Choice or by Chance, Doubleday, 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, […]
- 1999, James A. Boon, Verging on Extra-vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts ... Showbiz, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, 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.